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Toward a Robust Fiscal Framework for Iceland : Motivation and Practical Suggestions

Author/Editor: Anthony Annett.

Release Date:October, 2007

Expenditure in Iceland, especially related to the government wage bill, has tended to move in a procyclical manner, related to the fragmentation of political decision making. Iceland's elevated more...



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Lessons from Successful Labor Market Reformers in Europe

Author/Editor: Anthony Annett.

Release Date:May, 2007

Welfare states can be reformed successfully, and popular support for reforms can be maintained. But this requires an internally consistent package of labor market, fiscal, and product market reforms, more...



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Enforcement and the Stability and Growth Pact : How Fiscal Policy Did and Did Not Change Under Europe's Fiscal Framework

Author/Editor: Anthony Annett.

Release Date:May, 2006

The Stability and Growth Pact has been a success in numerous EU countries, especially in guiding them toward underlying fiscal balance ahead of population aging. These countries tend to be smaller, more...



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Reforming the Stability and Growth Pact

Author/Editor: Anthony Annett, Jörg Decressin, Michael Deppler.

Release Date:February, 2005

A rules-based fiscal framework, such as the EU’s Stability and Growth Pact (SGP), can be an important bulwark against short-sighted policies. Although policies have improved following the more...



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Politics, Government Size, and Fiscal Adjustment in Industrial Countries

Author/Editor: Anthony Annett.

Release Date:September, 2002

It is now well established that political and institutional factors matter for fiscal outcomes. Following a review of the literature, this paper examines the relationship between a variety of more...



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