Elections and opportunistic budgetary policies in Greece

Aid , Budgetary Policies , and the Macroeconomy : Growth , Inflation , and Welfare

This paper examines the macroeconomic effects of foreign aid transfers in a small open recipient economy. The focus, however, is not on the impact of foreign aid per se but rather on aid’s influence conditional upon the different budgetary financing policies under the discretion of the recipient government. We compare the effects of an aid transfer tied to investment in a public good from a pur...

Tradeoffs of Austrian Budgetary Policies: an Optimum Control Analysis

In this paper, we use optimum control methods to determine optimal budgetary policies for Austria over a five-year horizon. Optimal fiscal policies are calculated using the algorithm OPTCON. Optimal policies are compared to a simulation using extrapolated values of budgetary policy variables in terms of their performance with respect to Austrian macroeconomic targets. Policy tradeoffs between t...

Policies and Polls: Elections and Land Conflicts in Paser, Indonesia

State, Economy, Society and Recent Information Society Policies in Greece

Building on recent literature on national cases of information society (IS) and the knowledge-based economy, the paper examines the evolving processes and shapes of the Greek IS, by looking into recent policies promoted by the Greek state. In doing so, it deploys a state/society conceptual approach, which highlights the ways in which European IS policy and its national interpretations are artic...

Searching for Good Policies : Repeated Elections , Learning , and Policy Dynamics ∗

I study a model of dynamic policy making in which citizens do not have complete knowledge of how policies are mapped into outcomes. Citizens are able to order policies in the single-dimensional space according to the outcomes they are expected to produce but not according to the realized outcomes they do produce. They learn about the mapping through repeated elections as policies are implemente...