Preferences for Reforms: Endowments Vs. Beliefs
Preferences for Reforms: Endowments Vs. Beliefs

Author: Mr. Romain A Duval

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2022-02-18

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Are preferences for reforms driven by individuals’ own endowments or beliefs? To address this question, we conducted a cross-country survey on people’s opinions on employment protection legislation—an area where reform has proven to be difficult and personal interests are at stake. We find that individuals’ beliefs matter more than their own endowments and personal pay-offs. A randomized information treatment confirms that beliefs explain views about reform, but beliefs can change with new information. Our results are robust to several robustness tests, including to alternative estimation techniques and samples.

Spain
Spain

Author: International Monetary

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2024-06-06

Total Pages: 85

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Spanish economy has been resilient to successive shocks, whose effects were mitigated by unprecedented policy support that is now being phased out. The labor market performance has been exceptionally strong, and some of its perennial deficiencies—most notably the large share of temporary workers and high unemployment—have eased. Growth is projected to reach 2.4 percent in 2024, and headline and core inflation are expected to converge close to the ECB’s target before mid-2025. Risks have become more balanced but are still tilted to the downside for growth and the upside for inflation, including predominantly domestic risks (political fragmentation, under-execution of NGEU spending) but also global risks (energy price volatility, geopolitical risks, geo-economic fragmentation).

Handbook of Research on Economic Freedom
Handbook of Research on Economic Freedom

Author: Niclas Berggren

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2024-04-12

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 1802206159

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This seminal Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary research on economic freedom, using multidisciplinary methods to assess studies of the determinants and consequences of market-oriented institutions and policies. Niclas Berggren brings together world-leading experts in their respective fields to explore the notion of economic freedom in the history of economic thought, to present measures of economic freedom and to provide overviews of the latest empirical research.

The many lives of corruption
The many lives of corruption

Author: Ian Cawood

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2022-05-10

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1526150026

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

How has corruption shaped – and undermined – the history of public life in modern Britain? This collection begins the task of piecing together this history over the past two and a half centuries, from the first assaults on Old Corruption and aristocratic privilege during the late eighteenth century through to the corruption scandals that blighted the worlds of Westminster and municipal government during the twentieth century. It offers the first account that pays equal attention to the successes and limitations of anticorruption reforms and the shifting meanings of ‘corruption’. It does so across a range of different sites – electoral, political and administrative, domestic and colonial – presenting new research on neglected areas of reform, while revisiting well known scandals and corrupt practices.

War, Religion and Court Patronage in Habsburg Austria
War, Religion and Court Patronage in Habsburg Austria

Author: K. MacHardy

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-02-02

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 023053676X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This case study of the causes of the Thirty Years' War suggests an alternative framework to that of Absolutism, and views statebuilding as an interactive bargaining process that can engender challenges to political authority. It shows how selective court patronage changed the cultural habits of nobles in education, manners, and tastes, but failed to transform religious identities, which were intimately tied to noble interests. Instead, the confessionalization of patronage deepened divisions within the elite, providing multiple incentives for the formation of an anti-Habsburg alliance among Protestants in 1620.

Evolutionary Economics: v. 2
Evolutionary Economics: v. 2

Author: Marc R. Tool

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-12

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1315493039

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This is part of a two-volume work intended to map the theoretical heartland of the institutionalist perspective on political economy. Volume II considers basic economic processes, institutions for stabilizing and planning economic activities, the role of power and accountability, and emerging global interdependence. Marc R. Tool is the editor of "Journal of Economic Issues".