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204 publications found, searching for 'Fiscal Policy '

• Strategic Analysis
  April 14, 2017

  The Trump Effect: Is This Time Different?

  Gennaro Zezza and Michalis Nikiforos
  Abstract

  From a macroeconomic point of view, 2016 was an ordinary year in the post–Great Recession period. As in prior years, the conventional forecasts predicted that this would be the year…more

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• Policy Note No. 1
  April 06, 2017

  Inequality Update: Who Gains When Income Grows?

  Pavlina R. Tcherneva
  Abstract

  Since the 1980s, economic recoveries in the United States have been delivering the vast majority of income growth to the wealthiest households. This policy note updates the analysis in One-Pager…more

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• Working Paper No. 883
  February 24, 2017

  Fiscal Policy, Economic Growth and Innovation

  Lekha S. Chakraborty, Horst Hanusch, and Swati Khurana
  Abstract

  This paper analyzes the effectiveness of public expenditures on economic growth within the analytical framework of comprehensive Neo-Schumpeterian economics. Using a fixed-effects model for G20 countries, the paper investigates the…more

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• Public Policy Brief No. 143
  February 07, 2017

  Brazil Still in Troubled Waters

  Abstract

  Since inheriting the Brazilian presidency five months ago, the new Temer administration has successfully ratified a constitutional amendment imposing a radical, two-decades-long public spending freeze, purportedly aimed at sparking an…more

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• Working Paper No. 878
  December 12, 2016

  The Short- and Long-run Inconsistency of the Expansionary Austerity Theory

  Alberto Botta
  Abstract

  This paper provides a critical analysis of expansionary austerity theory (EAT). The focus is on the theoretical weaknesses of EAT—the extreme circumstances and fragile assumptions under which expansionary consolidations might…more

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• Working Paper No. 872
  August 24, 2016

  Federalism, Fiscal Space, and Public Investment Spending

  Pinaki Chakraborty
  Abstract

  The primary objective of rule-based fiscal legislation at the subnational level in India is to achieve debt sustainability by placing a ceiling on borrowing and the use of borrowed resources…more

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• Working Paper No. 867
  May 18, 2016

  The Greek Public Debt Problem

  Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, Gennaro Zezza, and Michalis Nikiforos
  Abstract

  This paper examines the issue of the Greek public debt from different perspectives. We provide a historical discussion of the accumulation of Greece’s public debt since the 1960s and the…more

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• Working Paper No. 866
  May 16, 2016

  Going Forward from B to A?

  Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, Gennaro Zezza, Massimo Amato, and Luca Fantacci
  Abstract

  After reviewing the main determinants of the current eurozone crisis, this paper discusses the feasibility of introducing fiscal currencies as a way to restore fiscal space in peripheral countries, like…more

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• Working Paper No. 865
  May 05, 2016

  Measuring Poverty in the Case of Buenos Aires

  Rania Antonopoulos, Ajit Zacharias, Thomas Masterson, and Valeria Esquivel
  Abstract

  We describe the production of estimates of the Levy Institute Measure of Time and Income Poverty (LIMTIP) for Buenos Aires, Argentina, and use it to analyze the incidence of time…more

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• Policy Note No. 2
  April 04, 2016

  The Narrow Path for Brazil

  Abstract

  Brazil is mired in a joint economic and political crisis, and the way out is unclear. In 2015 the country experienced a steep contraction of output alongside elevated inflation, all…more

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• Public Policy Brief No. 141
  March 25, 2016

  What We Could Have Learned from the New Deal in Confronting the Recent Global Recession

  Jan Kregel
  Abstract

  To the extent that policymakers have learned anything at all from the Great Depression and the policy responses of the 1930s, the lessons appear to have been the wrong ones….more

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• Strategic Analysis
  March 07, 2016

  Destabilizing an Unstable Economy

  Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, Gennaro Zezza, and Michalis Nikiforos
  Abstract

  Our latest strategic analysis reveals that the US economy remains fragile because of three persistent structural issues: weak demand for US exports, fiscal conservatism, and a four-decade trend in rising…more

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• One-Pager No. 51
  December 11, 2015

  Completing the Single Financial Market and New Fiscal Rules for the Euro Area

  Mario Tonveronachi
  Abstract

  Until market participants across the euro area face a single risk-free yield curve rather than a diverse collection of quasi-risk-free sovereign rates, financial market integration will not be complete. Unfortunately,…more

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• Working Paper No. 856
  December 10, 2015

  Redistribution in the Age of Austerity

  Antoine Godin, Markus P.A. Schneider, and Stephen Kinsella
  Abstract

  We examine the relationship between changes in a country’s public sector fiscal position and inequality at the top and bottom of the income distribution during the age of austerity (2006–13)….more

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• Working Paper No. 855
  November 30, 2015

  The Two Approaches to Money

  Giuseppe Mastromatteo and Lorenzo Esposito
  Abstract

  The scientific reassessment of the economic role of the state after the crisis has renewed interest in Abba Lerner’s theory of functional finance (FF). A thorough discussion of this concept…more

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• Public Policy Brief No. 140
  November 18, 2015

  The ECB, the Single Financial Market, and a Revision of the Euro Area Fiscal Rules

  Mario Tonveronachi
  Abstract

  Mario Tonveronachi, University of Siena, builds on his earlier proposal (The ECB and the Single European Financial Market) to advance financial market integration in Europe through the creation of a…more

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• Working Paper No. 848
  October 23, 2015

  Is Monetary Financing Inflationary?

  Josh Ryan-Collins
  Abstract

  Historically high levels of private and public debt coupled with already very low short-term interest rates appear to limit the options for stimulative monetary policy in many advanced economies today….more

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• One-Pager No. 50
  October 22, 2015

  A Public Investment Priority for Job Creation in Turkey

  Kijong Kim, İpek Ilkkaracan, and Tolga Kaya
  Abstract

  This one-pager presents the key findings and policy recommendations of the research project report The Impact of Public Investment in Social Care Services on Employment, Gender Equality, and Poverty: The…more

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• Book Series
  September 29, 2015

  Modern Money Theory: A Primer on Macroeconomics for Sovereign Monetary Systems, Second Edition

  L. Randall Wray
  Abstract

  In a completely revised second edition, Senior Scholar L. Randall Wray presents the key principles of Modern Money Theory, exploring macro accounting, monetary and fiscal policy, currency regimes, and exchange…more

• Research Project Report
  September 22, 2015

  The Impact of Public Investment in Social Care Services on Employment, Gender Equality, and Poverty

  Kijong Kim, İpek Ilkkaracan, and Tolga Kaya
  Abstract

  Produced in partnership with the International Labour Organization, United Nations Development Programme, and UN Women, this report examines the demand-side rationale for a public investment in the social care sector—specifically,…more

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• Working Paper No. 843
  July 27, 2015

  Is a Very High Public Debt a Problem?

  Pedro Leao
  Abstract

  This paper has two main objectives. The first is to propose a policy architecture that can prevent a very high public debt from resulting in a high tax burden, a…more

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• Working Paper No. 842
  July 24, 2015

  Making the Euro Viable

  Jörg Bibow
  Abstract

  The euro crisis remains unresolved and the euro currency union incomplete and extraordinarily vulnerable. The euro regime’s essential flaw and ultimate source of vulnerability is the decoupling of central bank…more

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• Working Paper No. 839
  June 01, 2015

  Inside Money in a Kaldor-Kalecki-Steindl Fiscal Policy Model

  Tai Young-Taft
  Abstract

  We hope to model financial fragility and money in a way that captures much of what is crucial in Hyman Minsky’s financial fragility hypothesis. This approach to modeling Minsky may…more

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• Strategic Analysis
  May 14, 2015

  Fiscal Austerity, Dollar Appreciation, and Maldistribution Will Derail the US Economy

  Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, Gennaro Zezza, and Michalis Nikiforos
  Abstract

  In this latest Strategic Analysis, the Institute’s Macro Modeling Team examines the current, anemic recovery of the US economy. The authors identify three structural obstacles—the weak performance of net exports,…more

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