This paper explores the nuanced relationship between fiscal decentralization and fiscal sustainability. Employing panel …

period 1970-2007, for different EU and OECD country groupings. We use the panel-data approach of Kónya (2006), which is based … effective real exchange rate in the SUR system does not substantially alter the results. -- Panel causality tests ; budget …

We study sovereign bond yields in OECD countries with a dynamic panel by checking for cross-section dependence …; assessing panel cointegration; and estimating panel error-correction models. The results show that markets consider budgetary … and external imbalances and inflation as relevant determinants of sovereign yields. -- long-term yields ; panel …

specific panel unit root test to investigate the mean-reverting behaviour of general government expenditures and revenues … ratios. Secondly, we apply the bootstrap panel cointegration techniques that account for the time series and cross … and revenues via SUR analysis. While results imply that public finances were not unsustainable for the EU panel, fiscal …

conclude for the existence of panel cointegration between government revenues and expenditures; primary government balance and …

pooled mean group estimator (SPMG) to deal with these features. Using this new panel estimator and a dataset spanning almost …

for the full panel. Performing an expanding window analysis, we conclude that the differential between the long-term real …