1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961121203321

Autore

Zettelmeyer Jeromin

Titolo

Fiscal Positions in Latin America : : Have They Really Improved? / / Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Ivanna Hollar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2008

ISBN

9786612840890

9781462363872

1462363873

9781451986280

1451986289

9781451869965

1451869967

9781282840898

1282840894

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (32 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

IMF working paper ; ; WP/08/137

Altri autori (Persone)

HollarIvanna

Disciplina

336.02

Soggetti

Revenue - Latin America

Business cycles - Latin America

Fiscal policy - Latin America

Commercial products

Commodities

Commodity Markets

Commodity prices

Expenditure

Expenditures, Public

Fiscal Policy

Fiscal policy

Fiscal stance

Income

Investment & securities

Investments: Commodities

Macroeconomics

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General

Personal income

Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions

Prices

Public finance & taxation



Public Finance

Argentina

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; Tables; 1. Latin America: Fiscal Developments; II. Methodology; A. Noncommodity Structural Revenue; B. Commodity Structural Revenue; C. Structural Balances; III. Results; A. Parameter Estimates and Statistical Tests; 2. Long-Run Income Elasticity of Central Government Tax Revenues; B. Structural Noncommodity Revenues; Figures; 1. Actual and Structural Noncommodity Revenues; C. Structural Commodity Revenues; D. Structural Primary Balances; 2. Actual and Structural Commodity Revenues; 3. Actual and Estimated Structural Primary Balances; IV. Conclusion; References

Appendices1. Revenue Data and Changes in Tax Structure; 2. Output Gap Estimates; Appendix Tables; A1. LAC Countries: Filter-Based Output Gap Estimates for 2007; 3. Commodity Price Indices and Projections; A2. Commodity Export Shares; A3. Commodity Price Indices and Medium Term Projections

Sommario/riassunto

Fiscal performance in Latin America looks much improved this decade compared to the 1980s or 1990s. Is this a "structural" improvement or likely to be transitory? This paper answers this question by estimating the relationship between non-commodity revenue and the economic cycle, and evaluating commodity revenues using alternative medium term commodity price projections. The main result is that structural revenues have indeed improved as a share of GDP, and structural primary balances are currently in surplus in many Latin American countries. However, the magnitude of these improvements is uncertain, in part due to uncertainty about the commodity price outlook.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955352103321

Titolo

Common sense, reasoning, & rationality / / edited by Renee Elio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002

ISBN

0-19-514767-7

1-280-53220-3

9786610532209

0-19-803368-0

1-4294-0340-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 278 pages)

Collana

New directions in cognitive science

Disciplina

128/.33

Soggetti

Reasoning

Practical reason

Commonsense reasoning

Common sense

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Issues in commonsense reasoning and rationality / Renée Elio -- Rationality and intelligence / Stuart Russell -- The logical foundations of means-end reasoning / John L. Pollock -- Induction and consistency / Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. -- The logic of ordinary language / Gilbert Harman -- Knowledge and coherence / Paul Thagard [and others] -- The evolutionary roots of intelligence and rationality / Denise Dellarosa Cummins -- How good are fast and frugal heuristics? / Gerd Gigerenzer, Jean Czerlinski, and Laura Martignon -- Commonsense reasoning, logic, and human rationality / Mike Oaksford and Nick Chater -- Reasoning imperialism / Lance J. Rips -- Ending the rationality wars : how to make disputes about human rationality disappear / Richard Samuels, Stephen Stich, and Michael Bishop.

Sommario/riassunto

While common sense and rationality have often been viewed as two distinct features in a unified cognitive map, this volume engages with this notion and comes up with novel and often paradoxical views of this relationship.