Teresa Ter-Minassian - Böcker

Following Macroeconomic Dimensions of Public Finance, this is the second volume of essays in honour of Vito Tanzi. It focuses on the importance of fiscal policy on the wholesale economic reforms that are sweeping the advanced, less developed and formally communist countries. Issues analyzed include:* the role of fiscal and budgetary policies in the process of reform* the impact of privatization on the exchequer and the dilemmas for social policy in times of fiscal austerity* the paradox of post-socialism and post-dirigisme that an efficient and harmonic move to a decontrolled, liberal market economy involves active state intervention* the methodological aspects relating to the proper assessment of fiscal policy mechanisms.This collection of essays contributes to the understanding of the channels and transmissions mechanisms of fiscal policies in the context of major economic reforms.

There is no magic formula for balancing fiscal policy and economic performance. As a scholar and policy advisor, Vito Tanzi has made a major contribution to identifying links between public finance and macro and microeconomic consequences. His findings bear relevance in both developing and industrialized economies. The essays in this volume and its companion, Fiscal Policy and Economic Reform, highlight many of these interconnected issues, for instance:* the interaction between budgetary policy and economic aggregates, such as employment, inflation and growth* the implication of economic linkages for designing fiscal policies* expenditure policies and alternative deficit financing strategies* the trade-offs between macro- and microeconomic objectivesThe list of contributors includes Max Corden, John Makin, Ronald McKinnon and Richard Musgrave.