Fiscal reaction under endogenous structural changes in Brazil

Composition of Government Spending, Optimal Fiscal Policy, and Endogenous Growth in the Economy of Iran

This paper investigates the optimal fiscal policy, pertaining to government spending, considering different productivity of public services in production function and its impact on the optimal tax rate, the optimal rate of government spending, and optimal economic growth rate. Using the VECM model for Iranian economy over 48 years, results show while the current expenditure has a positive and s...

Responses of endogenous proline in rice seedlings under chromium exposure

Hydroponic experiments were performed to exam the dynamic change of endogenous proline in rice seedlings exposed to potassium chromate chromium (VI) or chromium nitrate chromium (III). Although accumulation of both chromium species in rice seedlings was obvious, more chromium was detected in plant tissues of rice seedlings exposed to chromium (III) than those in chromium (VI), majority being in...

Fiscal policy under loose commitment

Due to time-inconsistency or political turnover, policymakers’ promises are not always fulfilled. We analyze an optimal fiscal policy problem where the plans made by the benevolent government are periodically revised. In this loose commitment setting, the properties of labor and capital income taxes are significantly different than under the full-commitment and no-commitment assumptions. Becaus...

Health Care In Canada : Incrementalism Under Fiscal

Driven by fiscal pressures in the 1990s, Canada’s provincial Medicare systems cut inpatient care, expanded community services, and consolidated hospitals under regional authorities in nine of ten provinces. Public confidence has been badly shaken by the transition. No province has successfully integrated services across the continuum of care. Home care and prescription drug coverage vary from p...

Fiscal policy and indeterminacy in models of endogenous growth