In the new issue of Public Sector Economics, Mikkel Barslund and Lars Ludolph in the article Could the decrease in Belgian government debt-servicing costs offset increased age-related expenditure? calculate the direct gains accruing to the Belgian government from lower net debt interest payments and contrast them to the projected future increases in age-related expenditures. Sylwia Pieńkowska-Kamieniecka, Joanna Rutecka-Góra and Damian Walczak in the article Willingness to redistribute: the case of Poland based on the solidarity game, present the determinants of willingness for redistribution of a group of Polish students. Maria Cornachione Kula in the article The behavior of U.S. States’ debts and deficits uses a panel of U.S. state data from 1978-1998 to empirically investigate whether primary surpluses respond to rising debt/GDP ratios. José Alves in the article The impact of tax structure on investment: an empirical assessment for OECD countries evaluates the impact of the tax structure on investments in OECD countries in 1980-2015 period. The impact of direct and indirect taxes on the growth of the Turkish economy has been analysed by employing the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach by Suna Korkmaz, Metehan Yilgor and Fadime Aksoy. Predrag Bejaković reviews a book Governance Beyond the Law: The Immoral, The Illegal, The Criminal (Abel Polese, Alessandra Russo and Francesco Strazzari, Eds.)

The Institute of Public Finance hosted the Migration and Ageing Populations workshop on September 5th - 6th 2019, organised with the Oxford Institute for Population Ageing (University of Oxford) and Ministry of Demography, Family, Youth and Social Policy of the Republic of Croatia. Participants from Central and Eastern Europe, members of the EAST (Eastern European Ageing Societies in Transition) research network, presented their research on migration and ageing. Professor George W. Leeson from the University of Oxford gave a lecture entitled ‘Migration as a Policy Response to Population Ageing’. The State Secretary at the Ministry of Demography, Family, Youth and Social Policy, Ms. Margareta Mađerić, was also present at the workshop. The programme is available here.