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Structural Reforms Without Prejudices

Editat de Tito Boeri, Micael Castanheira, Riccardo Faini, Vincenzo Galasso
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 iun 2006
Our economies face constant challenges from many different directions. Structural reforms are implemented every day, either to grasp the benefits of globalization and technological change, or to avoid foundering on unaffordable welfare systems or the rise of new economies.Despite this flurry of reforms, many of their effects are insufficiently understood. What makes reforms a success or a failure? Why do we witness systematically ambivalent attitudes to reforms? Can governments implement reforms differently, without inflicting prejudice to large fringes of the population?This book explores these issues by comparing a number of reforms, across a large set of countries and sectors. First, through an innovative multisectorial input-output analysis, the authors compare the effects of liberalisation reforms in the telecommunication and electricity sectors across Europe. Surprisingly, they find that very similar and well-intended reforms can generate highly contrasted outcomes. It is also shown that governments must consider the effects of each reform on all sectors of the economy. Second, the authors explore how governments can tailor their reform strategy to alter the redistributive effects of reforms. They show that the government's approach to reforms has been very different across time and across countries. A government's approach depends on local institutions, on the nature of the opposition, and on the scope of the reform under way. The authors, however, show that governments do have alternatives. Often, there are ways to tailor reforms so as to protect specific parts of the population; and there are ways to experiment gradually, to avoid costly policy mistakes.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199203628
ISBN-10: 0199203628
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: Numerous tables and line drawings
Dimensiuni: 165 x 241 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.65 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Tito Boeri received his Ph.D. in economics from New York University and is currently Professor of Economics at Bocconi University and is Director of the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti. He has also acted as consultant to the European Commission, International Monetary Fund, the ILO, the World Bank and the Italian Government.Micael Castanheira received his Ph.D. in economics from the Free University of Brussels and is currently a research fellow of the Belgian National Research Foundation (FNRS), and Professor of Economics at the Free University of Brussels.Riccardo Faini is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He was previously Director General at the Italian Treasury and has held the post of Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund.Vincenzo Galasso obtained his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles and is currently Associate Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, Milan, and Research Fellow of IGIER.