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expenditure, redistributive transfers, the tax rate and the level of public debt. Voters cast their vote after seeing the … platforms and elect representatives according to a majoritarian winner take all system. The level of debt, by affecting the … equilibrium of this game when public debt is the state variable, and study how Pareto efficiency depends on the electoral rule and …
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expenditure, redistributive transfers, the tax rate and the level of public debt. Voters cast their vote after seeing the … platforms and elect representatives according to a majoritarian winner take all system. The level of debt, by affecting the … equilibrium of this game when public debt is the state variable, and study how Pareto efficiency depends on the electoral rule and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010773113
Substantial fiscal consolidation was achieved under the aegis of the 2003 Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act. While deficits widened anew in 2008 and 2009, against the backdrop of the global financial and economic crisis, efforts to reduce them have resumed since. To ensure...
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Germany introduced a new fiscal rule, the 'debt brake', after the Global Financial Crisis and since then experienced a … strong decline in its public debt to GDP ratio until the coronavirus pandemic struck. The past ten years and the reaction to … the current crisis in Germany illustrate the intended effects of fiscal rules very well. Debt ratios are reduced during …
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We review current methods for calculating fines against cartels in the US and EU, and simulate their deterrence effects under different assumptions on the legal and economic environment. It is likely that European fines have not had significant deterrence effects before leniency programs were...
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generalized, and the implications of fiscal rules for the use of debt as a strategic asset in the hands of politicians are derived …
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During the last three decades there has been an almost continuous undermining of the public interest by private interests operating either outside or inside Greek public administration. The result of this infiltration has been a gradual loss of bureaucratic autonomy to pursue the public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270514
During the last three decades there has been an almost continuous undermining of the public interest by private interests operating either outside or inside Greek public administration. The result of this infiltration has been a gradual loss of bureaucratic autonomy to pursue the public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010903124
During the last three decades there has been an almost continuous undermining of the public interest by private interests operating either outside or inside Greek public administration. The result of this infiltration has been a gradual loss of bureaucratic autonomy to pursue the public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572540
motive for expectation management that aims towards the manipulation of equilibrium prices of government debt in a favorable …
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