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debt above 60 percent or deficits above 3 percent of GDP. We find that the proposed framework would require ambitious … fiscal adjustment: on average, more than 2 percent of GDP over the medium term, in addition to the adjustment that is already … framework. We also find that for most countries with debt above 60 percent of GDP, these adjustment requirements are driven by …
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fiscal stance when public-debt-to-GDP ratios are higher - but only in the euro area, not in advanced stand-alone countries …
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We study fiscal consolidations in the Central and Eastern European countries and what determines the probability of their success. We define consolidation events as substantive improvements in fiscal balances adjusting for the impact of cyclical effects. We use Logit models for the period...
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We investigate the impact of fiscal variables on bond yield spreads relative to US Treasury bonds in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia and Turkey from May 1998 to December 2007. To account for the importance of market expectations we use projected values for fiscal and macroeconomic...
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This paper uses a dynamic panel approach to explain the determinants of widening sovereign bond yield spreads vis-à-vis Germany in selected euro area countries during the period end-July 2007 to end-March 2009, when the financial turmoil developed into a full-blown financial and economic...
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This paper describes the particular impacts of the financial and economic crisis on central and eastern European (CEE) countries, studies pro-cyclicality of fiscal policies, discusses the impact of the crisis on fiscal policy, and the policy response of various governments. After drawing some...
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