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George Economides
Researcher at Athens University of Economics and Business
Publications - 85
Citations - 1210
George Economides is an academic researcher from Athens University of Economics and Business. The author has contributed to research in topics: General equilibrium theory & Fiscal policy. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 80 publications receiving 1099 citations. Previous affiliations of George Economides include Hellenic Open University & University of Cyprus.
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Tax-spending policies and economic growth: Theoretical predictions and evidence from the OECD
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an endogenous growth model to study the growth effects of the composition of government expenditure and the associated tax burden, using data from a set of 23 OECD countries during 1970-2000.
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Does foreign aid distort incentives and hurt growth? Theory and evidence from 75 aid-recipient countries
TL;DR: In this article, a model of a growing small open economy that distinguishes two effects from foreign aid transfers is presented, i.e., a direct positive effect, as higher transfers allow the financing of infrastructure; and an indirect negative effect, which induce rent-seeking competition by self-interested individuals.
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Growth enhancing policy is the means to sustain the environment
TL;DR: In this article, the second best optimal policy in a general equilibrium model of growth with renewable natural resources is studied, where the government uses distorting taxes to finance infrastructure services and cleanup policy.
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What is the best environmental policy? : taxes, permits and rules under economic and environmental uncertainty
Konstantinos Angelopoulos,George Economides,Apostolis Philippopoulos,Apostolis Philippopoulos,Apostolis Philippopoulos +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of uncertainty and public finance to the welfare ranking of three environmental policy instruments: pollution taxes, pollution permits and Kyoto-like numerical rules for emissions was studied.
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First-and second-best allocations under economic and environmental uncertainty
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a micro-founded DSGE model to compare second-best optimal environmental policy and the resulting Ramsey allocation, to first-best allocation, focusing on the source and size of uncertainty.