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Has the Stability and Growth Pact Stabilised?<br>Evidence from a Panel of 12 European Countries and Some Implications for the Reform of the Pact
Marinheiro, Carlos Fonseca - CESifo - 2005
Ever since its inception EMU has been subject to controversy. The fiscal policy rules embedded in the Treaty on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406411
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Euro Membership and Fiscal Reaction Functions
Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2013
The paper uses fiscal reaction functions for a panel of euro-area countries to investigate whether euro membership has reduced the responsiveness of countries to shocks in the level of inherited debt compared to the period prior to succession to the euro. While we find some evidence for such a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080736
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What Do We Really Know About Fiscal Sustainability in the EU? A Panel Data Diagnostic
Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe - 2021
We assess the sustainability of public finances in the EU15 using stationarity and cointegration analysis. Specifically, we use panel unit root tests of the first and second generation allowing in some cases for structural breaks. We also apply modern panel cointegration techniques developed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316576
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Austerity, Growth and Inflation - Remarks on the Eurozone's Unresolved Competitiveness Problem
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2013
While the financial protection measures enacted by the ECB and the community of Eurozone members have calmed financial markets, they have left the competitiveness problem of the Eurozone's southern countries and France unresolved. The paper compares price inflation before the crisis with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087283
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Fiscal Divergence and Current Account Imbalances in Europe
Schnabl, Gunther; Wollmershäuser, Timo - CESifo - 2013
Since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods System diverging current account positions in Europe have prevailed. While the Southern and Western European countries have tended to run current account deficits, the current accounts of the Central and Northern European countries, in particular Germany,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877801
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Fiscal Divergence and Current Account Imbalances in Europe
Schnabl, Gunther - 2013
Since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods System diverging current account positions in Europe have prevailed. While the Southern and Western European countries have tended to run current account deficits, the current accounts of the Central and Northern European countries, in particular Germany,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086602
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Hypnosis Before Wake-up Call?! The Revival of Sovereign Credit Risk Perception in the EMU-Crisis
Bordon, Ingo G.; Schmid, Kai D.; Schmidt, Michael - CESifo - 2014
the Maastricht treaty, the EMU convergence era, and the financial crisis. In detail, we find: (i) Since the 1980s the role … treaty, and again with the wake-up call due to the onset of the financial crisis. (ii) Before the financial crisis EMU member …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888450
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The Bail-Out! Positive Political Economics of Greek-type Crises in the EMU
Fahrholz, Christian; Wójcik, Cezary - CESifo - 2010
analysis suggests that, given EMU’s present political-economic set-up, i) the bail-out was unavoidable, ii) the lengthy process … with a future moral hazard problem. Based on our analysis, we suggest that the EMU’s institutional design could be improved … processes as well as the conditions and parameters on which the scope and limits of fiscal redistribution in EMU depends. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671732
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The role of MPC heterogeneity for fiscal and monetary policy in the Euro Area
Albacete, Nicolas; Fessler, Pirmin; Pekanov, Atanas - 2024
Closely following the seminal contribution of Jappelli and Pistaferri (2014) - based on Italian household survey data - we employ data of 22 European countries to assess the role of heterogeneity of the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) for fiscal policy in the Euro area. We document an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486919
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Estimating the Effects of Coordinated Fiscal Actions in the Euro Area
Hebous, Shafik - 2012
We estimate spillover effects of a fiscal shock in one member country in the euro area on outputs of the rest of the members, using a Global Vector Autoregression (GVAR) model. We compare the effects of a domestic fiscal shock with those of a similar size area-wide shock expressed as a weighted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101197