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Testing for Government Intertemporal Solvency: A Smooth Transition Error Correction Model Approach

2001

Applied macroeconomists have tested for the government intertemporal solvency condition by either testing for linear stationarity in the total government deficit series or testing for linear cointegration between total government spending and total tax revenues. A number of authors have focused, in particular, on structural breaks in the government deficit process. In this paper, we use a smooth transition error correction model to test and estimate a shift in the adjustment toward a linear cointegration relationship between the government spending to output ratio and the total tax revenues to output ratio. Estimation results show that government authorities react only to large (in absolute…

Assessing Long-Term Fiscal Developments: A New Approach

2009

We use a new approach to assess long-term fiscal developments. By analyzing the time-varying behaviour of the two components of government spending and revenue - responsiveness and persistence - we are able to infer about the sources of fiscal behaviour. Drawing on quarterly data we estimate recursively these components within a system of government revenue and spending equations using a Three-Stage Least Square method. In this way we track fiscal developments, i.e. possible fiscal deteriorations and/or improvements for eight European Union countries plus the US. Results suggest that positions have not significantly changed for Finland, France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and the US,…

Hückel’s Professional Career in National Socialist Germany

2009

When the National Socialists took over the government in early 1933, Huckel was a lecturer of “chemical physics” at the Wurttemberg polytechnic (Technische Hochschule) in Stuttgart, at the peak of his productivity as a researcher and a teacher. On May 8, 1933 he submitted the fourth and final part of his opus magnum on the quantum theory of unsaturated and aromatic compounds to the editorial offices of Zeitschrift fur Physik.He was planning to offer a number of different courses that academic year, from April 1, 1933 to March 31, 1934.In addition he intended to continue the “Seminar on atomic physics,” that he had been offering annually since the academic year 1931/1932 together with the fu…

Modelling Collaborative Logistics Policies that Impact the Performance of the Agricultural Sector

2018

The performance of the agricultural sector is considered a fundamental factor for achieving sustainability of the most vulnerable population as well to meet the world’s food needs. This is how countries like Colombia, recognize in their government plans the importance of the development of sector leveraged by infrastructures boosting their results, however, the instrumentation and design of public policies are a challenge for the governors given the dynamic complexity of the system. Through this research, we propose a model for the analysis of logistic public policies in the agricultural sector of the potato, where the collaboration through public-private partnerships (PPP) for the implemen…

Introduction to the Minitrack on Towards Government 3.0: Disruptive ICTs, Advanced Policy Informatics/Analytics and Government as a Platform

2019

Asymmetrical Crisis in the European Union: The Example of Greece

2020

The article presents the current economic crisis from an historical perspective, analyzing the building of the monetary integration and the common currency. The process is explained pointing out its effects on the European integration and outlining the positive and negative consequences of the introduction of a common currency in the European Union. The investigation continues with a general outlook of the current situation of the countries more affected by the current crisis, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy. All of them have in common the necessity of extra funding in a context of austerity, plus some national particularities. The author proposes an expansion in the public spend…

Campaign issues in political strategies and press coverage: The rental law conflict in the 1982–1983 election campaign in the federal republic of Ger…

1989

Abstract Election campaigns are institutionalized conflicts which are carried out in and through the mass media. Success and defeat in these conflicts depend upon the communication strategies of the parties and on the reactions of the journalists. In the election campaign of 1982–1983, the campaign manager of the Christian Democrats succeeded in altering the conflict over the new rental law into a conflict over the credibility of the SPD‐opposition. Thus, he created a counterpart to the criticism directed against the federal government. The newspapers and weekly news magazines did not take sides in the conflict through explicit evaluations, but rather by emphasizing or neglecting issues in …

FROM SEEKERS TO ACTIVISTS

2009

Media culture is a firm part of youth cultures today. Media can also be seen as one empowering technology in the information society alongside traditional school and government. What kind of civic identities are young people constructing in contemporary media culture? This article discusses media-saturated youth and audience agency, drawing on Dahlgren's ideas of civic culture. Relying on empirical data from two case studies in Finland, we will introduce a typology of civic identities, which the young construct as members of the public in relation to media. Our first case study is a youth civic website called Vaikuttamo.net and the second is the Youth Voice Editorial Board, which consists o…

Facilitators and Inhibitors of Technologies to Tackle Climate Change: Opinions of Government and Private Actors

2012

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the facilitators and inhibitors of investing in environmentally friendly technologies from the Spanish hotel perspective as well as to describe the governance initiatives pertaining to this issue. A description of the actions implemented by different Spanish governance institutions is given. Additionally, a survey is conducted to compile information provided by hotel managers on facilitators and inhibitors regarding investments in environmentally friendly information and communication technology (ICT). The results are compared across hotel categories. National governance bodies focus on providing tourist companies with preferential credits, assuming t…

Los toques de queda, confinamientos territoriales, prohibiciones de pequeñas reuniones y de actividades y horarios en la contención del Covid-19

2021

Se analizan los “toques de queda”, los confinamientos territoriales o perimetrales, las prohibiciones de pequeñas reuniones, así como las restricciones de actividades y horarios de los establecimientos y sus dudosas garantías. Todas estas restricciones Covid-19 bajo los estados de alarma o el muy cuestionable artículo 3 Ley Orgánica 3/1986 no han sido especial objeto de atención, ha habido  fuertes divergencias entre tribunales y están pendientes recursos y cuestiones de constitucionalidad. Se afirman lineamientos y criterios para una deseable futura regulación. Finalmente se concluye que especialmente el gobierno y el legislador estatal no han superado el "test de estrés" al sistema jurídi…