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Overestimation of social security payments reduces preferences for spending on social policy 高估社会保障金会降低对社会政策支出的偏好

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European Journal of Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2024.102557

Alexei Zakharov

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Populists and fiscal policy: The case of Poland 民粹主义者与财政政策：波兰案例

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European Journal of Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2024.102556

Maciej Wysocki , Cezary Wojcik , Andreas Freytag

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Reinforcing each other: How the combination of European and domestic reforms increased competition in liberalized industries 相互促进：欧洲改革与国内改革的结合如何增强自由化行业的竞争

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European Journal of Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2024.102552

Tommaso Crescioli

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Priming attitudes toward immigrants: Implications for migration research and survey design 引导对移民的态度：对移民研究和调查设计的影响

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European Journal of Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-05-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2024.102554

Patrick Dylong , Paul Setzepfand , Silke Uebelmesser

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Beyond borders: Assessing the influence of Geopolitical tensions on sovereign risk dynamics 超越国界：评估地缘政治紧张局势对主权风险动态的影响

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European Journal of Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-05-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2024.102550

António Afonso , José Alves , Sofia Monteiro

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Social trust and the advanced aspects of social progress. Evidence for the European regions 社会信任与社会进步的先进方面。欧洲地区的证据

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European Journal of Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2024.102547

Jesús Peiró-Palomino , Lisa Gianmoena , Andrés J. Picazo-Tadeo , Vicente Rios

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Anti-corruption campaign and economic growth in Chinese cities: The dichotomous mechanism of network-based political competition 中国城市的反腐败运动与经济增长：基于网络的政治竞争的二分机制

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European Journal of Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-05-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2024.102549

Xiangyu Shi

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Was Bolsonaro’s 2018 electoral victory an institutional accident? 博尔索纳罗 2018 年的选举胜利是制度性意外吗？

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European Journal of Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-05-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2024.102548

Marcelo Veloso Maciel

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Unleashing potential: Model-based reform benchmarking for EU Member States 释放潜力：欧盟成员国基于模式的改革基准

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European Journal of Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-05-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2024.102535

Philipp Pfeiffer, Janos Varga, Jan in 't Veld

{"title":"Unleashing potential: Model-based reform benchmarking for EU Member States","authors":"Philipp Pfeiffer, Janos Varga, Jan in 't Veld","doi":"10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2024.102535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2024.102535","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Supply-side policies take centre stage in the EU's post-pandemic recovery plans. This paper employs a benchmarking approach to quantify the potential impact of structural reforms in the EU Member States. Based on a comprehensive collection of structural indicators and a rich endogenous growth model, we evaluate reforms in five policy areas: (i) market competition and regulation; (ii) taxation; (iii) skills and education; (iv) labour markets; and (v) research and development. For each indicator and Member State, we simulate the closing of half of the gap with the EU's best performers, implying ambitious reforms for countries with significant distance to the frontier. For these stylised reforms, we find significant potential gains in employment and output, raising EU GDP by around 2% and 8% after five and twenty years, respectively. In the long run, the policies can increase EU GDP by over 20%. The policies also reduce economic disparities between countries, given different scope for reform. For countries with a sizable distance to the best performers, increases in potential GDP could exceed 40% when halving the gap across all indicators. Among the reforms considered here, human capital investment emerges as central for enhancing growth potential. In addition, we find synergies across reforms and countries and assess the sensitivity to alternative assumptions on technology dynamics in our model.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51439,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Political Economy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140823065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Adopting the euro: A synthetic control approach 采用欧元：合成控制方法

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European Journal of Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-05-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2024.102537

Ricardo Duque Gabriel , Ana Sofia Pessoa

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