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Fiscal Opacity and Lack of Consensus in Expectations for External Sector Variables
International Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fiscal transparency is essential for the expectations formation process, as governmental fiscal opacity often leads to forecast errors due to insufficient information. This study examines the relationship between fiscal unpredictability, particularly related to the primary budget, and the lack of consensus in expectations for external sector ...
Gabriel Caldas Montes +2 more
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International Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.Abstract The search for evidence in public management and the implementation of good management by public bodies is becoming increasingly important, and the principles of effectiveness and efficiency should be reinforced. Therefore, this paper aims to analyse the change in efficiency in the provision of public lighting services by local governments ...
Pablo Povedano‐Fernández +2 more
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Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aims To analyse the impact of a participatory process of awareness and reflection on compassion, in the face of end‐of‐life processes, in students aged 12–23 years in six Spanish regions, and to understand how the participatory process can transform their compassion. Design Mixed sequential transformative methodology with different phases.
Eva Abad‐Corpa +37 more
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‘This Is Not Europe’: Investigating the Commission's Anti‐Populist Articulation of ‘European Values’
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Whilst ‘populism’ is often considered antithetical to ‘European values’, how this contrast shapes the very meaning of such ‘values’ remains underexplored. This article investigates the European Commission's anti‐populist articulation of ‘European values’, which constructs ‘populism’ as their constitutive outside.
Alex Yates
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How enforcement institutions affect markets [PDF]
In an experiment we study market outcomes under alternative incentive structures for thirdparty enforcers. Our transactions resemble an anonymous credit market where lenders can give loans and borrowers can repay them.
Benito Arruñada, Marco Casari
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Macroprudential Policy in the Euro Area
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines the development and impact of macroprudential policies in the euro area. We construct a novel index that captures the stance of macroprudential policy, and we highlight its main stylized facts since the inception of the euro in 1999. We combine a narrative approach and a structural VAR method to show that both unanticipated
ÁLVARO FERNÁNDEZ‐GALLARDO +1 more
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Agency, identity and imagination in an urban primary school in Southern Mexico
Calidoscópio, 2012 This paper presents an ethnographic study of two studentteachers in a Mexican public primary school in a fifth-grade English-asa-Foreign-Language classroom.
Maria Dantas-Whitney +2 more
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Becoming legal: feminism and abortion law in 1970s Italy
Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.Abstract Conventional top‐down approaches to legal reform tend to overlook the contributions of social movements in legal change, often resulting in a gender‐blind analysis. In response, I advance ‘becoming legal’ as an analytical framework to rethink legal change in terms of a bottom‐up process encompassing informal proceedings as well as formal ...
ELENA CARUSO
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States and Firms on the Periphery: The Challenges of a Globalising World [PDF]
A key feature of globalisation has been the growth and spread of multinational enterprises (MNEs), but there is here is considerable evidence that MNEs do not regard all locations as being equivalent.
Benito, Gabriel, Narula, Rajneesh
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