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The Dynamic Behaviour of Budget Components and Output

Afonso, António; Claeys, Peter - 2008

budget balance in France, Germany, Portugal, and Spain. We try to uncover past trends behind the development of public …

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Fiscal Policies in Spain : Main Stylised Facts Revisited

Castro, Francisco de - 2014

We provide key stylised facts on fiscal policy developments in Spain over the past three decades using quarterly data …

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The distributional impacts of fiscal policy : the case of the Philippines

Son, Hyun H. - 2022

The distributional impacts of fiscal policies are instrumental in reducing inequality in countries like the Philippines, where inequality has been persistently high. This paper assesses how equitable various taxes and transfers in the Philippines are by deriving the elasticities of Atkinson and...

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Imperfect financial markets and the cyclicality of social spending

Froemel, Maren; Paczos, Wojtek - 2024

This paper explores the link between default risk and fiscal procyclicality. We show that countries with higher sovereign risk have a more procyclical fiscal expenditure policy, which is driven mostly by transfers. We build a small open economy model with income inequality, social transfers, and...

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Who cares? : attitudes towards redistribution and fiscal austerity

Brown, Sarah; Kontonikas, Alexandros; Montagnoli, Alberto; … - 2021

We present new evidence showing that fiscal austerity strengthens support for redistribution, especially for the … relatively well-off. Our theoretical model proposes two mechanisms to explain this heterogeneity in support for redistribution …

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The redistributive impact of taxes and transfers

Joumard, Isabelle; Londoño Vélez, Juliana - 2013

Income inequality in Colombia has declined since the early 2000s but remains very high by international standards …

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Could/should Jubilee debt cancellations be reintroduced today?

Hudson, Michael; Goodhart, Charles A. E. - 2018

In this paper the authors recall the history of Jubilee debt cancellations, emphasizing what their social purpose was at that time. They note that it would not be possible to copy that procedure exactly nowadays, primarily because most debt/credit relationships are intermediated via financial...

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Could/should Jubilee debt cancellations be reintroduced today? If not, what alternative measures of debt relief and redistribution might be possible?

Hudson, Michael; Goodhart, Charles A. E. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 12 (2018) 2018-45, pp. 1-25

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Income support to families with children in Spain

Hernández, Adrian; Picos, Fidel - 2021

Families with children receive support from the tax-benefit system to a different extent across countries. In Spain … families with children in Spain. We distinguish between three different forms of income support: (1) benefits aimed to ease the … families with children in Spain is low and mainly concentrated on tax reliefs, which are regressive in absolute terms …

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German public finances through the financial crisis

Blömer, Maximilian (contributor) - 2015

The German experience of the crisis was very different compared to those of most other countries in Europe. Germany was hit by a very strong shock which was relatively concentrated in the exporting, manufacturing industries. In addition, the German labour market was very resilient during the...

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