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State Government Catastrophe Risk Financing and the Capital Markets
Hildreth, W. Bartley - 2012
In recent years, certain states facing a high probability of catastrophic hurricane and earthquake exposures have added the burden of socializing the risk of individual and business property losses instead of leaving these private actions subject to voluntary insurance markets. In turn, these...
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The determinants of microinsurance demand
Eling, Martin; Pradhan, Shailee; Schmit, Joan Therese - 2013
The purpose of this article is to structure the extant knowledge on the determinants of microinsurance demand and to … microinsurance demand published between 2000 and early 2013. The review identifies 12 key factors affecting microinsurance demand … influences demand, both within the microinsurance and the traditional insurance markets. A comparison with traditional markets …
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Die Pandemie verschiebt die Dringlichkeiten in der Infrastrukturpolitik
Kindsmüller, Anna - 2021
Noch dreht sich die politische Debatte neben den wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen des Coronavirus vor allem um mögliche Maßnahmen zur Pandemiebekämpfung. Solange das Virus präsent ist, ist die Eindämmung des Infektionsgeschehens vorrangig. Doch bald wird es nicht mehr nur um die Frage gehen,...
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Investitionen, Auslastungsgrad und Öffentliche Finanzen in der mittleren Frist: Implikationen des Zweiten Nachtragshaushalts 2021
Drygalla, Andrej; Heinisch, Katja; Holtemöller, Oliver; … - In: Konjunktur aktuell 9 (2021) 4, pp. 141-148
Die Bundesregierung plant, mit dem Zweiten Nachtragshaushalt 2021 dem Energie- und Klimafonds eine Rücklage in Höhe von 60 Mrd. Euro zuzuführen. Die Mittel sollen in den Folgejahren in Investitionen in den Klimaschutz und die Transformation der Wirtschaft fließen und zugleich...
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Fiscal rules and the behavior of public investment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Towards growth-friendly fiscal policy? The case of Argentina
Artana, Daniel A.; Moskovits, Cynthia; Puig, Jorge; … - 2021
This paper analyzes the implementation of Fiscal Rules (FR) in Argentina. Several clear attempts to establish a FR at the national level are identified. The analysis suggests that the environment matters. The only FR that was binding in the period was approved in 2004 during an economic boom,...
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Programa minha casa minha vida: Avaliações de aderência ao déficit habitacional e de acesso a oportunidades urbanas
Krause, Cleandro; Nadalin, Vanessa Gapriotti; Pereira, … - 2023
This article is a contribution of the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada - Ipea) to the evaluation of the My House My Life Program (Minha Casa Minha Vida - PMCMV) carried out within the scope of the Public Policy Monitoring and Evaluation Council...
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A Covid deixa sequelas: A destruição do estoque de capital das micro e pequenas empresas como consequência da pandemia de Covid-19
Nogueira, Mauro Oddo; De Farias Costa Moreira, Rafael - 2023
The covid-19 pandemic has been devastating for small businesses, being responsible for an abrupt fall in demand, interruption of economic activities, and, in many cases, bankruptcy of numerous enterprises. Data from Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) indicate that, until June...
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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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Growth-friendly fiscal rules? Safeguarding public investment from budget cuts through fiscal rule design
Ardanaz, Martín; Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Izquierdo, Alejandro - 2020
We show that some types of fiscal rules can mitigate the well-known procyclical bias in public capital expenditures. Past research has found that fiscal adjustment episodes coincide with large public investment cuts, a pattern we also document in a sample of 75 advanced and emerging economies...
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Investitionen, Auslastungsgrad und Öffentliche Finanzen in der mittleren Frist : Implikationen des Zweiten Nachtragshaushalts 2021
Drygalla, Andrej; Heinisch, Katja; Holtemöller, Oliver; … - In: Konjunktur aktuell 9 (2021) 4, pp. 141-148
Die Bundesregierung plant, mit dem Zweiten Nachtragshaushalt 2021 dem Energie- und Klimafonds eine Rücklage in Höhe von 60 Mrd. Euro zuzuführen. Die Mittel sollen in den Folgejahren in Investitionen in den Klimaschutz und die Transformation der Wirtschaft fließen und zugleich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013165017