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Fiscal dominance and inflation: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Public Sector Economics
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the debate on monetary financing was reignited and several economists called for governments to borrow from their central banks to finance larger deficits.
John Hooley Hooley, Lam Nguyen, Mika Saito, Shirin Nikaein Towfighian   +3 more
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De Gustibus Est Disputandum: The role of agricultural and applied economists in an era of behavior change initiatives and endogenous preferences

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Popular society increasingly questions preferences that drive many resource allocations and production decisions, with many groups actively seeking to alter those preferences to achieve changes to resource use. Agricultural and applied economists, who are already equipped with excellent technical skills to undertake consumer preference and ...
Brian E. Roe
wiley   +1 more source

In pursuit of tax equity: lessons from VAT rate structure adjustment in Poland

Financial Theory and Practice, 2015
In 2011, in the aftermath of the economic crisis, Poland increased its value added tax rates. Despite an already large VAT policy gap, further rate differentiation was used to address distributional concerns and to protect the most vulnerable households.
Artur Świstak, Sebastian Wawrzak, Agnieszka Alińska   +2 more
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Chapter 3 once more

Iberian Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2018
We revisit the famous chapter in Keynes’ General Theory (GT) with the tools of modern microeconomics to 1. derive expressions for the elasticity of the supply curve, 2. define effective demand, 3. draw out Keynes’ comparative statics.
Romar Correa
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Economics of land‐based carbon mitigation

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Agricultural land holds tremendous potential to contribute to net zero greenhouse gas emission goals by providing low carbon renewable energy to displace fossil fuels and by serving as a sink for sequestering carbon in the soil with climate‐smart practices. This potential is, however, far from being realized.
Madhu Khanna
wiley   +1 more source

Do Variations in State Consultation Programs Affect Construction Fatality Rates?

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Along with its enforcement program, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has a voluntary consultation program that responds to requests from firms to identify hazards at their workplaces. We studied the effects of this program on fatal work injuries in the construction industry.
Wayne B. Gray, John Mendeloff
wiley   +1 more source

Analyzing the Effect of Monetary Shocks on 12 Main Categories of Consumer Price Index (FAVAR Approach) [PDF]

فصلنامه پژوهش‌های اقتصادی ایران, 2012
Achieving price stability is known as one of the tasks and objectives of policy makers especially in central banks. In order to implement inflation targeting policy, the information relating to the response of prices to monetary policy shocks is ...
Maryam Hematy, Ahmad Reza Jalali Naini
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Superannuation Reimagined: Moving Beyond the Origins to an Indigenous Focus

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Retirement income systems, such as superannuation, are meant to be non‐discriminatory and consider disadvantage faced by members of society. There are significant differences between the life expectancies of Indigenous and non‐Indigenous peoples. The gap in life expectancies is not considered when determining when Indigenous peoples can retire.
Levon Ellen Blue, Peter Anderson, Mark Brimble   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

Islamic Dinar and 100 Percent Reserve Requirements Monetary System

International Journal of Management Studies, 2008
The Gold Dinar/Islamic Dinar is studied as a currency that mobilises financial resources into Shari’ah-compliant ends within a general system approach to complement relations between money, finance, and the real economy.
Masudul Alam Choudhury
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