Aging and deflation from a fiscal perspective

Global Aging and Fiscal Policy with International Labor Mobility: A Political Economy Perspective

Global Aging and Fiscal Policy with International Labor Mobility: A Political Economy Perspective This paper uses an overlapping generations model with international labor mobility and a politically responsive fiscal policy to examine aging in developed and developing regions. Migrant workers change the political structure composed of young and elderly voters in both labor-receiving and labor-s...

Fiscal Decentralization: A Political Economy Perspective

This paper surveys recent contributions to the study of fiscal decentralization which adopt a political economy approach. It is argued that this approach can capture, in a variety of formal models, the plausible and influential ideas (increasingly, supported by empirical evidence) that fiscal decentralization can lead to improved preference-matching and accountability of government. In particul...

Fiscal Federalism in Russia: a Canadian Perspective

This paper considers the key instrumental components of intergovernmental fiscal relations in the Russian Federation – expenditures, revenues, transfers, borrowing, and institutional arrangements – in comparison both to Canada’s lengthy experience with federalism and to a framework developed on the basis of previous work on fiscal federalism in a variety of transitional and developing countries. .

A Perspective on Fiscal Federalism in Russia

Aging from a Global Perspective, Fall Narratives and Much More …

Hello! As you read this letter, our annual meeting of the Canadian Geriatrics Society has just wound down. It was a fantastic conference, and all the abstracts from the excellent research presented in Toronto are included in this issue of the Journal. I am pleased to present the spring issue of the Canadian Geriatrics Journal. In this issue we have a wide variety of topics including an examinat...