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Naše Gospodarstvo, 2015 Portugal is a member of the group known by investors as ‘PIIGS’, countries characterised by having high public debt and weak economic growth. Using an extended time horizon, 1974–2014, this study seeks to empirically explore the relationship between ...
Ferraz Ricardo, Duarte António Portugal
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The optimal inflation tax when taxes are costly to collect [PDF]
Tax collection costs have been advocated in the literature as a reason to deviate from the Friedman rule, in standard general equilibrium monetary models with flexible prices.
De Fiore, Fiorella
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Growth and Productivity: the role of Government Debt [PDF]
We use a panel of 155 countries to assess the links between growth, productivity and government debt. Via growth equations we assess simultaneity, endogeneity, cross-section dependence, nonlinearities, and threshold effects.
António Afonso, João Tovar Jalles
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Sovereign risk premia in the European government bond market [PDF]
This paper provides a study of bond yield differentials among EU eurobonds issued between 1991 and 2002. Interest differentials between bonds issued by EU countries and Germany or the USA contain risk premia which increase with the debt, deficit and debt-
Bernoth, Kerstin +2 more
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Field efficacy of new compounds to replace copper for scab control in organic apple production [PDF]
, 2007 Efficacy of compounds was investigated in field experiments in Denmark and the Netherlands according to EPPO guidelines. Some Yucca extracts and potassium bicarbonate had an efficacy similar to sulphur on leaves.
Bengtsson, M. +5 more
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Localized mode hybridization by fine tuning of 2D random media
, 2012 We study numerically interaction of spatially localized modes in strongly scattering two-dimensional media. We move eigenvalues in the complex plane by changing gradually the index of a single scatterer.
Labonté, Laurent +2 more
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What Do We Know About Competition and Quality in Health Care Markets? [PDF]
The goal of this paper is to identify key issues concerning the nature of competition in health care markets and its impacts on quality and social welfare and to identify pertinent findings from the theoretical and empirical literature on this topic. The
Martin Gaynor
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Static- and dynamical-phase transition in multidimensional voting models on continua
, 2004 A voting model (or a generalization of the Glauber model at zero temperature) on a multidimensional lattice is defined as a system composed of a lattice each site of which is either empty or occupied by a single particle.
A. A. Lushnikov +9 more
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The role of fiscal transfers for regional economic convergence in Europe [PDF]
This paper provides evidence on the role of net fiscal transfers to households and EU structural funds for per-capita output convergence across a large sample of European regions during the period 1995-2005.
Checherita-Westphal, Cristina +2 more
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What accounts for the changes in U.S. fiscal policy transmission? [PDF]
Using vector autoregressions on U.S. time series for 1957-1979 and 1983-2004, we find government spending shocks to have stronger effects on output, consumption, and wages in the earlier sample.
Bilbiie, Florin O. +2 more
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