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What determines administrative capacity in developing countries?
Ricciuti, Roberto; Savoia, Antonio; Sen, Kunal - 2018
While it is recognized that effective state institutions are pivotal for economic development, it is not well understood what their origins are and what explains their cross-country differences. We focus on budget institutions in developing economies, as efficient public finance planning in such...
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Improving the fiscal framework to enhance growth in an era of fiscal consolidation in Slovakia
Klein, Caroline; Price, Robert W.; Wörgötter, Andreas - 2013
The challenge for fiscal policy in Slovakia is to achieve fiscal consolidation in a way which supports the fragile recovery and protects spending on areas which are important for re-embarking on a trajectory of high trend growth and underpinning a catch-up in living standards. While the recently...
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Creative accounting practices and measurement methods : evidence from Turkey
Ozkaya, Ata - 2014
A fiscal rule imposed when the budget is not transparent yields more creative accounting to circumvent it and less fiscal adjustment, generating hidden deficits/debts in public sector. This study focuses on creative accounting practices of governments and adds to the literature by measuring...
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The cyclicality of Irish fiscal policy ex-ante and ex-post : a cross-country examination
Cronin, David; McQuinn, Kieran - 2017
The cyclicality of fiscal policy in Ireland in the budgetary plans put before parliament and ex-post is considered … numerous variable-estimation procedure combinations for assessing cyclicality. Fiscal policy in Ireland is found to be … Ireland, a continuation of procyclical fiscal policy would endanger its requirements being met. …
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Personal der öffentlichen Verwaltung in Nordrhein-Westfalen : Entwicklungen und Handlungsoptionen zur Neustrukturierung ; Gutachten im Auftrag der Enquetekommission zur Bewertung d...
Potrafke, Niklas; Korioth, Stefan; Reischmann, Markus Josef - 2015 - Oktober 2015
In dem Gutachten werden ein Überblick der Personalausgaben und der Personalstruktur des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen gegeben und Handlungsoptionen für die Personalpolitik des Landes abgeleitet. Im Jahr 2012 stellten die direkten und indirekten Personalausgaben in Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW) 43%...
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Can bottom-up institutional reform improve service delivery?
Molina, Ezequiel - 2014
This article makes three contributions to the literature. First, it provides new evidence of the impact of community monitoring interventions using a unique dataset from the Citizen Visible Audit (CVA) program in Colombia. In particular, this article studies the effect of social audits on...
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Infrastructure, institutions and identity : determinants of regional development : empirical evidence from Germany
Gäbler, Stefanie - 2020
Stefanie Gäbler prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for Public Finance and Political Economy. The study was completed in March 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of six distinct empirical essays...
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Uncertainty and episodes of extreme capital flows in the Euro area
Schmidt, Torsten; Zwick, Lina - 2013
In der Euro-Krise gingen starke Änderungen in internationalen Kapitalflüssen mit großer makroökonomischer Unsicherheit einher. Zwar ist es offensichtlich, dass beide Faktoren ökonomische Schocks auslösen bzw. verstärken können, es ist aber derzeit unklar, inwiefern sie direkt miteinander...
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Public investment in R&D in reaction to economic crises : a longitudinal study for OECD countries
Pellens, Maikel; Peters, Bettina; Hud, Martin; Rammer, … - 2018
The paper investigates the reaction of public R&D spending on economic crises. We are interested in two counteracting motives: On the one hand, public R&D spending can be seen as a means to fight the crisis, and governments may decide to increase their R&D budgets. On the other hand, a crisis...
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El futuro de los pactos fiscales en América Latina
Lora, Eduardo - 2008
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