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| Sobhee, Sanjeev K.; Nath, Shyam. |
| This paper contributes to the literature on foreign aid by exclusively explaining a donor’s motivation for foreign external assistance. The underlying framework focuses on recipients’ needs for foreign aid to address income inequality as and when growth occurs. A tax-subsidy policy is hypothesised in the manner advocated by optimal tax theory to effectively deal with inequity by minimizing the distortionary effects of income taxes. This framework is ultimately endogeneized in the recipient’s budget constraint, from which the donor derives the demand for foreign assistance. The outcome supports an inverted-U relationship between foreign aid and per capita income in the way postulated by the conventional Kuznets curve. Our postulate is empirically tested... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Foreign aid; Optimal taxation; Fiscal policy; International Relations/Trade; F35; H21; E62. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50163 |
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| Hefeker, Carsten. |
| The paper explores the interaction between the proposed monetary union for ECOWAS and structural reforms of fiscal policy. The effects depend to a large extent on the degree of similarity of member countries. In a monetary union of similar countries, member states run a more distortive fiscal policy, while their structural reform efforts will fall. This is also the case for countries that unilaterally peg to an anchor currency or introduce a foreign currency. In an monetary union with dissimilar countries the reverse can happen for those member states that are confronted with high distortion countries. This result implies that current WAEMU members will run a less distortive fiscal policy after the inclusion of other members of ECOWAS. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: West Africa; Monetary union; Fiscal policy; Structural reforms; Financial Economics; F33; E61; E63. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/26257 |
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| Corsetti, Giancarlo; MacKowiak, Bartosz. |
| We study the interaction of fiscal and monetary policies during a currency crisis in an economy with government nominal liabilities. We show that the stock and maturity of these liabilities are key determinants of the magnitude, timing and predictability of a devaluation. Among notable features of our model, monetary authorities defend the currency parity conditional on the level of the interest rate, rather than on the stock of international reserves; budget deficits need not be high before a currency crisis; postdevaluation inflation may exhibit little persistence, and money demand need not fall after the crisis. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Currency crisis; Speculative attacks; Fiscal policy; Financial Economics; F31; F33; E58. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28516 |
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| Maitah, Mansoor; der Ali, A.. |
| The subject of the relationship between state budget and trade balance is important as economic subject, not only at the level of developing countries, but also at of advanced ones, too. Such importance emerged clearly when 1980s witnessed in United States of America a deficit in both state budget and trade balance, which was called at that time as the twin or dual deficit. We can say that the analysis of relationship between state budget and trade balance states the extent of mutual effect between financial and trade policies of any economy, namely; any change in the outcome of either one may affect the other in the same degree. To put in other words, the instruments of financial policy represented by total incomes and total expenditures can affect the... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: State budget; Trade balance; Libya; Trade policy; Fiscal policy; Financial Economics; International Relations/Trade; GA; IN. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/99221 |
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| Weinert, Gunter. |
| Der Stabilitats- und Wachstumspakt ist in den vergangenen Jahren von einer zunehmenden Zahl von Landern verletzt worden. Dies deutet auf Mangel in der Gestaltung bzw. in der Umsetzung des Pakts hin. Kritisiert wird insbesondere das zentrale Kriterium für eine nachhaltige Finanzpolitik, eine für alle Länder einheitliche Obergrenze von 3 % für die gesamtstaatliche Defizitquote, nicht zuletzt wegen der damit verbundenen Asymmetrie. Zugleich wurden zahlreiche Alternativen vorgeschlagen: eine Orientierung der Finanzpolitik an den gesamtstaatlichen Schulden, am strukturellen Budgetsaldo, mit oder ohne besondere Berücksichtigung der öffentlichen Investitionen, sowie an einem für die mittlere Frist festgelegten linearen Pfad für die öffentlichen Ausgaben. Die... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Fiscal policy; Budget deficit; Public debt; Financial Economics; E62; H62; H63. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/26246 |
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