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The role of direct democracy in the European Union

Feld, Lars P.; Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2003

discussion of the pros and cons of direct democracy, the ability of direct democracy to help creating a European demos is …

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Does democracy make taller men? : cross-country European evidence

Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2021 - This version: January 2022

We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual …-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include … models accounting for several confounders, regional and cohort fixed effects. We document that democracy - or its quality …

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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 - 2014 - This Version: July 2014

This paper qualifies the view of pronounced overpricing of sovereign bonds for the so-called GIIPS countries during the financial crisis. We use annual data for 21 OECD countries from 1980 to 2012. As opposed to related studies, our data set allows us to contrast the pricing of macroeconomic...

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Fiscal sustainability, fiscal reactions, pitfalls and determinants

Afonso, António; Coelho, José Carlos - 2022

We examine the sustainability of public finances and its determinants for 19 Eurozone countries from 1995 to 2020. We conclude for the existence of panel cointegration between government revenues and expenditures; primary government balance and one-period lagged public debt-to-GDP ratio; and...

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Budgetary constrained governments : drivers of time varying fiscal sustainability in OECD countries

Afonso, António; Coelho, José Carlos - 2024

We assess the drivers of fiscal sustainability in 20 OECD economies between 1950 and 2019. We find stable long-term relationships between government revenues and expenditures as well as between the primary budget balance and past public debt ratio for the full panel. Performing an expanding...

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Public finances solvency in the Euro Area : true or false?

Afonso, António; Coelho, José Carlos - 2022

We assess public finances solvency for Euro Area countries using quarterly data between 1999Q1 and 2020Q4. Through a country-by-country analysis, the answer to the title question is true. For most countries, (i) the primary budget balance reacts positively to the lagged public debt ratio and...

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Monetary policy surprise shocks under different fiscal regimes : a panel analysis of the Euro Area

Afonso, António; Alves, José; Ionta, Serena - 2023

We study the effect of monetary policy surprise shocks on real output and the price level, conditioned on different fiscal stances in the period 2001Q4-2021Q4 for a panel of the 19 countries of the Euro Area. Applying local projection methodology, we find that the effect of monetary shocks...

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Populism and social polarization in European democracies

Ginsburgh, Victor; Perelman, Sergio; Pestieau, Pierre - 2020

The objective of this paper is to explain populist attitudes that are prevailing in a number of European democracies. Populist attitudes expectedly lead to social protests and populist votes. We capture the populist wave by relying not on voting behavior but rather on values that are...

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Future European alliance : Europe as a flexible democracy

Frey, Bruno S.; Steuernagel, Armin; Friedrich, Jonas - 2018

A reasonable future for Europe can only be achieved if two essential elements are fulfilled: Firstly, newly established institutions must be democratic and have strong support from citizens rather than from national governments. Secondly, the large number of different ethnic, cultural,...

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The bail-out! : positive political economics of greek-type crises in the EMU

Fahrholz, Christian; Wójcik, Cezary - 2010

The Greek bail-out was highly controversial. An oft-heard assessment is that i) the bail-out was a mistake, ii) the political haggling over it was irrational and iii) the bail-out will create a moral hazard problem. Contrary to this view, our analysis suggests that, given EMU's present...

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