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critically assess the widely used projections of the Working Group on Ageing Populations (AWG) of the EU's Economic Policy …
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This paper provides a study of bond yield differentials among EU government bonds issued between 1993 and 2005 on the … by EU countries and Germany or the USA contain risk premiums which increase with fiscal imbalances and depend negatively …
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procedures in EU countries on public finances. It briefly describes the main pattern of budgetary institutions and their … determinants across the EU 15 member states. Empirical evidence for the time period 1985-2004 suggests that the centralisation of …
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Fiscal rules, such as the Excessive Deficit Procedure and the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP), aim at constraining government behavior. Milesi-Ferretti (2003) develops a model in which governments circumvent such rules by reverting to creative accounting. The amount of this depends on the...
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such rules in Japan and in the EU. Comparing the performance of fiscal policy in the 1980s and 1990s until 2003, we find … rule of the Maastricht Treaty had a significant impact on political budget cycles in the EU, but did little to constrain … fiscal rule in the EU has vanished. Next, we discuss the importance of budgetary institutions for the effectiveness of fiscal …
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This note looks at US$ and DM/Euro denominated government bond spreads relative to US and German benchmark bonds before and after the start of the current financial crisis. The study finds, first, that bond yield spreads before and during the crisis can largely be explained on the basis of...
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