Author/Editor: John D Brondolo, Frank Bosch, Eric Le Borgne, Carlos Silvani.

Release Date:May, 2008

Tax administration reforms can play an important role in fiscal adjustment. This role is examined by reviewing Indonesia's tax reform cum fiscal adjustment experience since 2001. The paper describes more...

Author/Editor: Paulo A Medas, Eric Le Borgne.

Release Date:December, 2007

This paper looks at the role Sovereign Wealth Funds have played in the Pacific Island Countries in achieving key macro-fiscal policy objectives, namely, protecting the budget from high revenue more...

Author/Editor: Eric Le Borgne, Gauti B Eggertsson.

Release Date:April, 2007

This paper proposes a theory to explain why a politician delegates policy tasks to a technocrat in an independent institution. It formalizes the rationales for delegation highlighted by Hamilton more...

Author/Editor: Niko Hobdari, Eric Le Borgne, Chonira Aturupane, Koba Gvenetadze, John Wakeman-Linn, Stephan Danninger.

Release Date:April, 2004

Oil and gas production in Azerbaijan were projected to increase sharply in 2005 and 2006, respectively, reaching peaks of 1.3 million barrels a day in 2009 and 20 billion cubic meters a year in 2010. more...

Author/Editor: Ben Lockwood, Eric Le Borgne.

Release Date:March, 2003

This paper studies a principal-agent model of the relationship between an incumbent officeholder and the electorate, where the officeholder is initially uninformed about her ability. If officeholder more...

Author/Editor: Eric Le Borgne, Ben Lockwood.

Release Date:March, 2002

We investigate whether private information about citizens' competence in political office can be revealed by their entry and campaign expenditure decisions. We find that this depends on whether more...