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Expenditure Reform in Industrialised Countries - a Case Study Approach

Hauptmeier, Sebastian; Heipertz, Martin; Schuknecht, Ludger - 2021

This study examines reforms of public expenditure in industrialised countries over the past two decades. We distinguish ambitious and timid reformers and analyse in detail reform experiences in eight case studies of ambitious reform episodes. We find that ambitious reform countries reduce...

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Reforming Public Expenditure in Industrialised Countries : Are There Trade-Offs?

Schuknecht, Ludger; Tanzi, Vito - 2021

In this paper, we show that, contrary to common beliefs, over the past two decades several countries were able to reduce public spending by remarkable amounts. These countries did not seem to have suffered from these large reductions either in a macroeconomic sense, or in terms of lower values...

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Revenue- versus spending-based consolidation plans : the role of follow-up

Beetsma, Roel; Furtuna, Oana; Giuliodori, Massimo - 2018

The literature on fiscal multipliers finds that spending-based fiscal consolidations tend to have more benign macro-economic consequences than revenue-based consolidations. By directly comparing ex-post data with consolidation plans, we present evidence of a systematically weaker follow-up of...

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The Impact of Fiscal Decentralisation on Education and Other Types of Spending

Busemeyer, Marius R. - 2008

Scholars have argued about the impact of fiscal decentralisation on public spending for a long time without coming to any firm theoretical and empirical conclusions. In contrast to earlier studies, this paper looks at the impact of fiscal decentralisation across different types of spending. It...

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Consolidamento Fiscale e Interventi sul Pubblico Impiego : L'esperienza di otto Paesi Europei (Fiscal Consolidation Packages and Containment of Public Sector Wage Bill: The Evidenc...

Meacci, Mara; Quaglierini, Cristina - 2012

Per effetto della crisi economica che si è realizzata con particolare intensità nel corso del 2009, molte economie avanzate hanno intrapreso percorsi di risanamento fiscale. Nell'ambito di tali misure un ruolo non trascurabile è rappresentato dagli interventi di riduzione della spesa per il...

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Fiscal Influences on Inflation in OECD Countries, 2020-2022

Barro, Robert J.; Bianchi, Francesco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The fiscal theory of the price level (FTPL) has been active for 30 years, and the interest in this theory grew with the recent global surges in inflation and government spending. This study applies the FTPL to 37 OECD countries for 2020-2022. The theory's centerpiece is the government's...

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Do governments re-prioritise spending? : First insights from COFOG data on public spending reallocation in OECD countries

Barnes, Sebastian - 2023

This study investigates the capacity of governments to reallocate spending across different functions of the government. It mobilises the COFOG dataset for the period 1996 - 2017, which allows comparing public spending mixes at detailed levels in ways that are consistent across countries and...

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The impact of taxes and wasteful government spending on giving

Sheremeta, Roman M.; Uler, Neslihan - 2020

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The composition of government expenditure with alternative choice mechanisms

Creedy, John; Moslehi, Solmaz - In: New Zealand economic papers 48 (2014) 1, pp. 53-71

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Immigration, search, and redistribution : a quantitative assessment of native welfare

Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Peri, Giovanni; … - 2014

redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of …

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