Tag Archives: deficits
Another Picture That Will Define Ontario Politics for the Next Four Years
Ontario is getting a Throne Speech this week and a budget next week and these events will set the stage for the June election. In her recent post, Frances drew attention to the province's public finances via the public sector wage bill and the public-private sector wage differential and that cutting the public sector wage […]
Federal Budgetary Comparisons: Canada and the United States
It is federal government budget season in both Canada and the United States and I thought it might be useful to provide a few visual comparisons on federal government finance for the two countries. While the expenditure responsibilities and composition of the two federal governments as well as the relationships and responsibilities with lower tier […]
Fiscal Policy Shocks
Well, here is a new contribution to the debate over the effect of fiscal policy shocks from the journal of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. The authors Paweł Borys, Piotr Ciżkowicz and Andrzej Rzońca are from the Warsaw School of Economics and look at the impact of fiscal policy shocks on EU new member states. […]
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