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Public finance in the era of the Covid-19 crisis
Agrawal, David R.; Bütikofer, Aline - 2022
The COVID-19 crisis poses new policy challenges and has spurred new research agendas in public economics. In this article, we selectively reflect on how the field of public economics has been shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss several areas where more research is necessary. We highlight...
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'Working the System' - British American Tobacco's Influence on the European Union Treaty and its Implications for Policy : An Analysis of Internal Tobacco Industry Documents
Smith, Katherine Elizabeth; Fooks, Gary Jonas; Collin, Jeff - 2010
Impact assessment (IA) of all major European Union (EU) policies is now mandatory. The form of IA used has been criticised for favouring corporate interests by overemphasising economic impacts and failing to adequately assess health impacts. Our study sought to assess how, why, and in what ways...
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Open Economy Public Finance
Wildasin, David E. - 2021
Many important questions in the field of public finance can be viewed as problems involving public policies in open economies. This paper draws together, from that perspective, a wide range of topics in public economics, emphasizing the implications of resource mobility for our understanding of...
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Open economy public finance
Wildasin, David E. - 2021
Many important questions in the field of public finance can be viewed as problems involving public policies in open economies. This paper draws together, from that perspective, a wide range of topics in public economics, emphasizing the implications of resource mobility for our understanding of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012489638
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Regulating in Pandemic : Evaluating Economic and Financial Policy Responses to the Coronavirus Crisis
Hafiz, Hiba - 2020
The United States is currently trying to manage a fast-moving public health crisis due to the coronavirus outbreak … provisions of H.R. 6201 (the “Families First Coronavirus Responses Act”) passed by the house on March 14, 2020, subject to … on March 18, 2020. Next, it analyzes the provisions of H.R. 748 (the “Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act …
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Federalism, fiscal space, and public investment spending : do fiscal rules impose hard budget constraints?
Chakraborti, Pinaki - 2016
The primary objective of rule-based fiscal legislation at the subnational level in India is to achieve debt sustainability by placing a ceiling on borrowing and the use of borrowed resources for public capital investment by phasing out deficits in the budget revenue account. This paper examines...
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Promoting Fiscal Transparency : The Complementary Roles of the IMF, Financial Markets, and Civil Society
Petrie, Murray - 2021
This paper explores initiatives to date by the IMF, financial markets, and civil society organizations to assess and utilize information on fiscal transparency. The results of surveys and interviews of rating agency analysts and surveys of civil society organizations on their level of awareness...
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COVID-19 pandemic and fiscal sustainability
Stepanova, Olena - In: Economy and forecasting : scientific journal (2020) 2, pp. 5-15
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Public finance in pandemic times
Govinda Rao, Marapalli - In: Journal of Asian development research 1 (2020) 1, pp. 1-14
Never before in living memory has economic destruction been so severe as it has been caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has struck at a time when the economy has already been slowing due to structural problems. Therefore, hastening the recovery process and accelerating the pace of...
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Fiscal rules and fiscal councils : recent trends and performance during the COVID-19 pandemic
Davoodi, Hamid; Elger, Paul; Fotiou, Alexandra; … - 2022
Adoption of fiscal rules and fiscal councils continued to increase globally over the last decades based on two new global datasets. During the pandemic, fiscal frameworks were put to test. The widespread use of escape clauses was one of the novelties in this crisis, which helped provide policy...
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