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term structure of public debt on fiscal sustainability. We adopt the widely used backward-looking measure of fiscal … sustainability – fiscal responsiveness as proposed by Bohn (1998). Using data from De Graeve and Mazzolini (2023) and focusing on a … sole factor explaining the negative impact of longer maturity of public debt on fiscal sustainability. …
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specifically on their degree of success, notably in terms of fiscal sustainability. The "need" to consolidate is based on having a … primary balance above or below the debt-stabilizing primary balance (provided by the IMF's Debt Sustainability Analysis) for … each country. We then link the need for and the actual (historical) existence of fiscal adjustments to their sustainability …
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The paper looks at the determinants of fiscal adjustments as reflected in the primary surplus of countries. Our conjecture is that governments will usually find it more attractive to pursue fiscal adjustments in a situation of relatively high growth, but based on a simple stylized model of...
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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...
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We examine the relationship between inflation and fiscal sustainability with a two-step approach. In the first step, we … estimate to estimate a country-specific time-varying measure of fiscal sustainability using the fiscal reaction function. This … estimate of fiscal sustainability found previously. Our findings indicate that higher inflation rates contribute positively to …
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We evaluate the impact of government spending efficiency on fiscal sustainability for a panel of 35 OECD countries … the input efficiency scores obtained, countries' fiscal balance and fiscal sustainability is directly improved by the use … revenues, which also improves fiscal sustainability. Specifically, rationalising public expenditures without jeopardising the …
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Through fiscal reaction functions, we investigate fiscal sustainability for five European country-group panels and … between 1990 and 2021, we identify evidence of average compliance with sustainability restrictions among Eurozone nations …
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In this paper we analyze the sustainability of public finances in the states (Laender) of the Federal Republic of … and 1991 to 2011 for East German Laender, respectively. In order to assess the fiscal sustainability of the (Laender) we … strict fiscal sustainability in most of the 16 German Laender. A notable exception to this finding is Bavaria. …
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In this paper, we extend Henning Bohn's (2008) fiscal sustainability test by allowing for slope heterogeneity and cross … sustainability criteria. According to our results, politicians have significantly reacted to increasing debt levels by increasing …
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We examine the sustainability of public finances and its determinants for 19 Eurozone countries from 1995 to 2020. We …-varying coefficients, we find that fiscal sustainability increases with growth, fiscal balances and fiscal rules indices, and decreases …
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