Fiscal policy regimes and household consumption

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The way in which various factors like size, duration and composition of fiscal changes can change the effects of fiscal policy on private consumption with reference to an unbalanced panel of 19 OECD countries during the period 1960-2000 is discussed. The results show that expansionary fiscal contractions are likely to come at a considerable social cost.

Public Finance Activities, Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Fiscal Policy, Forecasts and trends, Influence, Market trend/market analysis, Consumption (Economics), Global economy

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The governance of competition: the interplay of technology, economics, and politics in European Union electricity and telecom regimes

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A comparison is presented of governance systems for electricity and telecommunications, focusing on types and levels of competition and the European Union's policies toward them. These include regulation-for-competition, regulation-of-competition, and deregulated competition, which the EU approaches through sectorial, national and union strategies.

Management, Europe, Electric utilities, Telecommunications services industry, Telecommunications industry, Science and technology policy, European Union

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Defection and hierarchy in international intelligence sharing

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The reason why intelligence sharing takes place, the forms that it takes and what way it can shape foreign policy choices with reference to the sharing between the U.S. and Britain and West Germany during the early cold war is discussed.

United States, Germany, National Security, Military Intelligence, International aspects, Antiterrorism measures, Intelligence gathering

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