Historically, many countries have suffered a pattern of procyclical fiscal policy: spending too much in booms and then forced to cut back in recessions, thereby exacerbating the business cycle. This problem has especially plagued Latin American commodity-producers. Since 2000, fiscal policy in...

This paper develops a model in which it is possible to evaluate alternatives of human capital …nancing. The alternative systems under discussion are: total feeing; graduates taxes and uniform taxes (this can be associated to the scheme presently used in the Argentina universitary system)....

This paper studies the patterns of fiscal stimuli in the OECD countries propagated by the global crisis. Overall, we find that the USA net fiscal stimulus was modest relative to peers, despite it being the epicenter of the crisis, and having access to relatively cheap funding of its twin...

In a seminal contribution, Romer and Romer (2010) (RR henceforth) estimate GDP tax multipliers of up to -3 after 3 years. These results have been criticized as implausibly large. For instance, Favero and Giavazzi (2010) (FG henceforth) argue RR's specification cannot be interpreted as a proper...

Between 2007 and 2009, government expenditures increased rapidly across the OECD countries. While economic research on the impact of government purchases has flourished, in the data, about three quarters of the increase in expenditures in the United States (and more in other countries) was in...

This paper studies optimal monetary and fiscal policy in a small open economy. Two forces in the economy impose orthogonal restrictions on financing costs across governments. The first force requires constant financing costs across governments to have time consistent optimal policy of hours. The...

Cobalt is an important metal which is being used in advanced technologies such as alloying and electronic industry; as well as in painting and ceramics. This paper attempts to research the possible ways of transferring possibilities of cobalt from calcine which is obtained as a waste from...

In this work, some characterizations of closed time-like dual curves and time-like dual curves of constant breadth in dual Lorentzian space are presented.

It is shown that on the base of Driveline acceleration measurement it is possible to define a variational problem, solution of which permits to synthesize general Control function of Drivelines control process. The last function covers various particular control problems. It is shown, that these...

We use state and county level variation to examine the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on employment. A cross state analysis suggests that one additional job was created by each $170,000 in stimulus spending. Time series analysis at the state level suggests a smaller...