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Financing Government Deficit During Economic Downturn: Options For Consideration, O. Ajakaiye
Financing Government Deficit During Economic Downturn: Options For Consideration, O. Ajakaiye
Economic and Financial Review
The author examines the efficacy of the conventional approach to financing budget deficit during economic downturn in Nigeria. He also considers other (unconventional) options for financing budget deficits during economic downturn in Nigeria.
Making Progress In Idaho State Budgeting: The Sequel, Dick Kinney
Making Progress In Idaho State Budgeting: The Sequel, Dick Kinney
Richard Kinney
This paper examines Idaho state budgeting decisions for Fiscal Year 2014 and assesses what progress has been made to return to the state’s revenue and spending levels before the hard times in 2009 and 2010 (Kinney 2010; Kinney 2011). After briefly describing Idaho’s population and politics, the report discusses the state’s economic and General Fund revenue contexts for budget decision making. It then analyzes the governor’s budget and the legislature’s appropriations and considers two important potential impacts of these decisions. Progress in Idaho state budgeting continued to be mixed. The state economy generally gained since the recession years although prospects …
The Curious Case Of Greece: The Impact Of Fiscal Policy Shocks On Key Macroeconomic Variables. A Var Based Approach., Manny Kaliontzakis
The Curious Case Of Greece: The Impact Of Fiscal Policy Shocks On Key Macroeconomic Variables. A Var Based Approach., Manny Kaliontzakis
Master's Theses
For years, the Vector Autoregressive approach has been the main tool for monetary economics and macroeconomic researchers around the world. Leading central banking figures, academics, and modern economic think tanks have used the approach to determine the effects of interest rate shocks on basic macroeconomic variables such as GDP, industrial production and unemployment rate. Shocking policy variables, such as interest rates or long term bond rates have given economists the ability to run reliable forecasts. The last 20 years have seen a turn in the use of the VAR approach on fiscal policy as well. Even though, in general, previous …
Making Progress In Idaho State Budgeting: The Sequel, Dick Kinney
Making Progress In Idaho State Budgeting: The Sequel, Dick Kinney
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
This paper examines Idaho state budgeting decisions for Fiscal Year 2014 and assesses what progress has been made to return to the state’s revenue and spending levels before the hard times in 2009 and 2010 (Kinney 2010; Kinney 2011). After briefly describing Idaho’s population and politics, the report discusses the state’s economic and General Fund revenue contexts for budget decision making. It then analyzes the governor’s budget and the legislature’s appropriations and considers two important potential impacts of these decisions. Progress in Idaho state budgeting continued to be mixed. The state economy generally gained since the recession years although prospects …
Public Debt, Secular Stagnation, And Functional Finance, Peter Skott
Public Debt, Secular Stagnation, And Functional Finance, Peter Skott
Economics Department Working Paper Series
Fiscal policy and public debt may be required to maintain full employment and avoid secular stagnation. This conclusion emerges from a range of different models, including OLG specifications and stock-flow consistent (post-) Keynesian models. One of the determinants of the required long-run debt ratio is the rate of economic growth. Low growth leads to high debt, and empirical correlations between growth and debt may reflect this causal effect of growth on debt, rather than negative effects of debt on growth. A second result relates directly to austerity policies. The level of government consumption and the structure of taxation influence the …
Política Fiscal En Un Contexto De Crisis De Deuda Externa: Análisis Del Caso Colombiano En La Década Pérdida, José Manuel López Castellanos, Yessica Alexandra Sánchez Caro
Política Fiscal En Un Contexto De Crisis De Deuda Externa: Análisis Del Caso Colombiano En La Década Pérdida, José Manuel López Castellanos, Yessica Alexandra Sánchez Caro
Economía
La crisis de la deuda externa en América Latina durante la década perdida constituyó un proceso de desajuste macroeconómico en las economías de la región, economías que estaban amparadas bajo el modelo de desarrollo por sustitución de importaciones y tendencia al endeudamiento externo con el propósito de financiar sus procesos de industrialización. Pero la recesión obligó a que los países optaran por tomar diferentes medidas de política económica para enfrentar la crisis. Colombia, a diferencia del resto de la región, se muestra en la literatura como un caso excepción debido al buen manejo que tuvo en su política de endeudamiento …
Fiscal Policy, Laffer Curves And Economic Growth, Si Gao
Fiscal Policy, Laffer Curves And Economic Growth, Si Gao
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The doctoral dissertation consists of three essays on the topics of economic growth and fiscal policy.
The Fiscalization Of Social Policy : Tax Expenditures And The Cultural Legacies Of Public Policies, Joshua Thomas Mccabe
The Fiscalization Of Social Policy : Tax Expenditures And The Cultural Legacies Of Public Policies, Joshua Thomas Mccabe
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This dissertation examines the politics behind the increasing use of tax expenditures as tools for social policy in the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom. Tax expenditures, particularly in-work and child tax credits, have grown into major components of social policy across a number of countries since the 1970s. While some scholars have noted this increasing "fiscalization" of social policy, our current theories of welfare states struggle to explain this expansion across all three countries in an era of "permanent austerity" as well as variation in the distribution of these tax credits between the U.S. on one hand and Canada …
Essays On Local Political Economy In Brazil And The United States, Evan Andrews
Essays On Local Political Economy In Brazil And The United States, Evan Andrews
Dissertations - ALL
This dissertation covers different aspects of political institutions and fiscal policy in local governments. The first essay examines the political consequences of an increase in the district magnitude (the number of open seats) for legislatures. The second essay studies how the size of a local legislature affects the size and composition of public spending. The third essay develops and tests a theory of how transaction costs might affect the use of earmarked revenues by local budgeting authorities. The last essay compares the relative impacts of factors that might make a local government more likely to adopt own-source revenues. These questions …