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Sunday, March 30, 2008

FISCAL FEDERALISM AND TAX COMPETITION: THE CASE OF SWITZERLAND

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Financial Times recently published an article ( link ) describing how fiscal federalism works in Switzerland. Contrary to conventional belie...

DEMOCRATS AND THE ECONOMY

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Stephen J. Rose and Anne Kim, writing for Wall Street Journal, wrote an article ( link ) about the democratic attitude towards the economy; ...

ICELAND'S INFLATION

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From WSJ's Real Time Economics ( link ): " Iceland’s central bank Tuesday unexpectedly raised its key interest rate by 125 basis p...
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Friday, March 21, 2008

INTERVIEW WITH JOHNNY MUNKHAMMAR

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In your newest book called "Guide to Reform" you emphasized the significant importance of economic and structural reforms to pursu...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

ECONOMICS AND THE RULE OF LAW

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Last week, The Economist posted an article ( link ) describing the relationship between economics and the rule of law. Until recently, the r...
Monday, March 17, 2008

THE MIRAGE OF SWEDEN'S WELFARE STATE

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Today's edition of the Wall Street Journal includes an opinion ( link ) where the author describes how the costs of social engineering a...
Saturday, March 15, 2008

COMPETITIVE TEXAS vs. LAGGING OHIO

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Hillary R. Clinton and Barack Obama are racing around the states to win the primaries ( here and here ) . Recently, they've been fetchi...
Friday, March 14, 2008

UNCERTAINTY IN ECONOMIC DECISION MAKING

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Mr. Edmund Phelps, a Nobel laureate in economics, has written an opinion on economic uncertainty ( link ) published in Wall Street Journal. ...
Wednesday, March 12, 2008

ECONOMIC REFORMS AND THE POLITICAL CYCLE

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Johnny Munkhammar ( link ) recently explained the willingness and to implement market-based reforms as a political incentive of re-election....
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

AUSTRIA: ALPINE TAX HAVEN DEFENDS FINANCIAL PRIVACY LAW

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Austria firmly rejected the initiative from the European Union to ease and possibly remove the legislation that aims at client data privacy ...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

OBAMANOMICS vs. McCAINOMICS

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The Economist has published an interesting article about the economic policy agenda proposed by Democratic candidates. Both, Hillary Clinto...
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Friday, February 29, 2008

REFORMS AND GROWTH: THE NEW SWEDISH MODEL

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Fredrik Reinfeldt, Sweden's prime minister delivered a lecture at London School of Economics and Political Science where he defined how ...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

TIME TO RECOGNIZE THE BENEFITS OF GLOBALIZATION

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The reality could hardly agree with growing anti-globalist tenstions in Western Europe ( link ) that globalisation boosts unemployment and t...
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HUNGARY'S FREE-FLOATING EXCHANGE RATE

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Earlier, I posted an article about Hungary's low-growth epidemics emerged from a misguided economic policy. Hungary, known for a stagge...
Saturday, February 23, 2008

GERMANY'S FISCAL AGGRESSION

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In a continuing and overpowering war against low-tax jurisdictions ( link ), German government hit out a tax attack on the Principality of L...
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FLAT TAX IN POLAND?

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Poland, the biggest economy in central Europe might introduce a low and single-rated flat tax ( link )
Friday, February 22, 2008

THE AGE OF MILTON FRIEDMAN

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While reading prof. Mankiw's blog , I came across Andrei Schleifer's new working paper entitled The Age of Milton Friedman has draw...
Sunday, February 17, 2008

HUNGARY'S LOW GROWTH DISEASE

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When studying and/or doing a job in macroeconomics, it is important to keep an eye on three ke y features: economic growth, inflation and un...
Monday, February 11, 2008

MY READING LIST IN THESE DAYS

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In previous days, there has been much less blogging on my blog due to study course and a growing list of obligations regarding studying and ...
Tuesday, February 05, 2008

THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS FREE LUNCH IN HEALTH-CARE

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The U.K. Daily Telegraph reports on the persistent sentiments to limit and ration the access to health-care services for older people and i...
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