From transfers to capital: analyzing the Spanish demand for wealth using NTA [PDF]
Inter- and intra-family transfers are a very important part of our daily economic activity. These transfers, whether familial or public, may influence our economic decisions to the same extent that financial markets do.
Concepció Patxot +3 more
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Fiscal Update, October 5, 2005 [PDF]
The Fiscal Division newsletter, published weekly during session and periodically during the ...
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Poverty Reduction Using Self-Interested Intermediaries: Implications for the Design of Inter-Governmental Transfers [PDF]
The paper studies the design of inter-governmental transfers when redistribution is effected through the public provision of a private good (education) by local government agents.
Billy Jack
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What affects the Russian regional governments'propensity to subsidize? [PDF]
Subsidies funded by Russia's regional governments represented about 5.2 percent of GDP in 1995, almost triple the 2 percent of GDP in subsidies funded by the federal government. Regional policies vary greatly, influenced more by local factors than by the
Freinkman, Lev, Haney, Michael
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Multi-model comparison of a major flood in the groundwater-fed basin of the Somme River (France) [PDF]
The Somme River Basin is located above a chalk aquifer and the discharge of the somme River is highly influenced by groundwater inflow (90% of river discharge is baseflow).
F. Habets +13 more
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Costing-out the Big Bang: Impact of external shocks on the Armenian economy at the outset of transition [PDF]
This paper explores factors of economic decline in the small republican economies of the former USSR. It develops quantitative estimates of the costs of major transitional shocks for Armenia during the early transition, including the direct impact of ...
Avanesyan, Vahram, Freinkman, Lev
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Financial Foundations of Local Self-Government in the Russian Federation
This article examines the issue of increasing local budget revenues as a necessary condition for improving the efficiency of municipalities in the Russian Federation.
M. S. Basiev
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Fiscal federalism and regional growth : evidence from the Russian Federation in the 1990s [PDF]
Subnational fiscal autonomy-the basis for fiscal federalism in modern federations-is meant to serve two roles. First, local control over revenue collection is meantto provide a check on the capacity of central authorities to tax arbitrarily local capital.
Itzhak Goldberg +2 more
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Azormod dynamic general equilibrium model for Azores [PDF]
The main objective of this paper is to present a multi-sectoral, multi-regional dynamic modelling platform of the Azores economy integrated within the European and global context.
Bayar, Ali +4 more
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Issues before the thirteenth finance commission. [PDF]
The Thirteenth Finance Commission faces challenging times. Despite improvement, the fiscal situation continues to be a matter of concern when off budget liabilities and other fiscal risks are considered. In the changing situation of increasing oil prices
Jena, Pratap R. +2 more
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