Fiscal Politics / / Vitor Gaspar, Sanjeev Gupta, Carlos Mulas-Granados

• Autore: Gaspar Vitor
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2017
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (550 pages)
• Disciplina: 339.52
• Soggetto topico: Fiscal policy; Political science - Economic aspects; Budgeting; Foreign Exchange; Macroeconomics; Public Finance; Taxation; Fiscal Policy; National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General; Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt; Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General; National Budget; Budget Systems; National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock; Public finance & taxation; Budgeting & financial management; Currency; Foreign exchange; Labour; income economics; Expenditure; Public debt; Revenue administration; Fiscal rules; Expenditures, Public; Debts, Public; Revenue; Budget; Income economics
• Soggetto geografico: United States
• Altri autori: GuptaSanjeev Mulas-GranadosCarlos
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Fiscal Politics -- PART I: ELECTIONS, IDEOLOGY, AND POLITICAL FRAGMENTATION -- 2 Governments and Promised Fiscal Consolidations: Do They Mean What They Say? -- 3 Fiscal Policy over the Election Cycle in Low-Income Countries -- 4 Economic and Political Determinants of Tax Policies in OECD Countries -- 5 Now or Later? The Political Economy of Public Investment in Democracies -- 6 Do Elections Affect the Wage Bill? -- 7 Energy Subsidies and Public Social Spending: Theory and Evidence -- 8 It's Politics, Stupid! Political Constraints Determine Governments' Reactions to the Great Recession -- 9 Fragmented Politics and Public Debt -- PART II: INSTITUTIONS, RULES, AND FISCAL COUNCILS -- 10 Political Institutions, State Building, and Tax Capacity: Crossing the Tipping Point -- 11 Fiscal Discipline and Exchange Rates: Does Politics Matter? -- 12 Expenditure Rules: Effective Tools for Sound Fiscal Policy? -- 13 Fiscal Rules to Tame the Political Budget Cycle: Evidence from Italian Municipalities -- 14 On the Determinants of Fiscal Noncompliance: An Empirical Analysis of Spanish Regions -- 15 Budget Institutions in Low-Income Countries -- 16 Fiscal Watchdogs and Sound Fiscal Policy: Is the Barking Loud Enough to Tame Politicians? -- PART III: SUPRANATIONAL FISCAL POLITICS -- 17 The Making of a Continental Financial System: Lessons for Europe from Early American History -- 18 Fiscal Politics in the Euro Area -- 19 IMF Conditionality and Revenue Performance -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
• Sommario/riassunto: Two main themes of the book are that (1) politics can distort optimal fiscal policy through elections and through political fragmentation, and (2) rules and institutions can attenuate the negative effects of this dynamic. The book has three parts: part 1 (9 chapters) outlines the problems; part 2 (6 chapters) outlines how institutions and fiscal rules can offer solutions; and part 3 (4 chapters) discusses how multilevel governance frameworks can help.
• Titolo autorizzato: Fiscal Politics
• ISBN: 1-4755-8952-2; 1-4755-8956-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820576603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Books