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Inflation Dynamics and Policy Mix in Ghana
Folia Oeconomica StetinensiaGhana was the second African country to adopt the inflation-targeting framework in 2007. The country faced persistently high levels of inflation, exceeding 100 percent in the early 1980s.
Leshoro Temitope Lydia A.
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Tax Wedge and its Impact on Employment in OECD Countries
Studia Universitatis Vasile Goldis Arad, Seria Stiinte EconomiceOur study explores the relationship between the tax wedge, unemployment rate and employment rate on the labor market in a comparative framework, highlighting existing approaches in the OECD countries.
Radu Claudia Florina +2 more
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A Longer-run Perspective on Fiscal Sustainability [PDF]
This paper investigates the sustainability of fiscal policy in a set of 19 countries by taking a longer-run secular perspective over the period 1880-2009.
António Afonso, João Tovar Jalles
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Intergenerational altruism and neoclassical growth models [PDF]
This paper surveys intergenerational altruism in neoclassical growth models. It first examines Barro's approach to intergenerational altruism, whereby successive generations are linked by recursive altruistic preferences.
Michel, Philippe +2 more
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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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Assessing long-term fiscal developments - a new approach [PDF]
We use a new approach to assess long-term fiscal developments. By analyzing the time varying behaviour of the two components of government spending and revenue - responsiveness and persistence - we are able to infer about the sources of fiscal behaviour.
Afonso, António +3 more
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Comparative Southeast European StudiesCorruption is often defined as the abuse of public functions for private gain, but research has expanded this view to include clientelism and forbearance, particularly in neo-patrimonial contexts.
Imami Drini, Polese Abel
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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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