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Fiscal Sustainability using Growth-Maximising Debt Targets
Checherita-Westphal, Cristina D. - 2012
This paper highlights the importance of debt-related fiscal rules and derives growth-maximizing public debt ratios from a simple theoretical model. On the basis of evidence on the productivity of public capital, we estimate public debt targets that governments should try to maintain if they wish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100835
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Cost of Borrowing Shocks and Fiscal Adjustment
de Groot, Oliver - 2013
Do capital markets impose fiscal discipline on governments? We investigate the responses of fiscal variables to a change in the interest rate paid by governments on their debt in a panel of 14 European countries over four decades. This is done in the context of a panel vector autoregressive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089247
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Interactions between Fiscal Multipliers and Sovereign Risk Premium During Fiscal Consolidation : Model Based Assessment for the Euro Area
Lalik, Magdalena - 2017
The paper presents a model-based assessment of fiscal multipliers operating in the euro area during the period 2011-2014. The assessment is conditional on two distinct reactions of the sovereign risk premium (either responding endogenously to fiscal shocks or being an exogenous process) and two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963411
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Does Fiscal Austerity Affect Public Opinion?
Kalbhenn, Anna - 2015
In this paper we explore the impact of fiscal austerity on three different dimensions of public opinion (overall life satisfaction and confidence, attitude towards national authorities, and European institutions). Based on a panel of 26 EU countries, we find that, overall, fiscal consolidation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025081
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Learning About Fiscal Multipliers During the European Sovereign Debt Crisis : Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
Górnicka, Lucyna - 2018
Identifying fiscal multipliers is usually constrained by the absence of a counterfactual scenario. Our new data set allows overcoming this problem by making use of the fact that recommendations under the EU's excessive deficit procedure (EDP) provide both a baseline no-policy-change scenario and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917733
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Debt Stabilizing Fiscal Rules
Michel, Philippe; von Thadden, Leopold; Vidal, Jean-Pierre - 2021
Unstable government debt dynamics can typically be corrected by various fiscal instruments, like appropriate adjustments in government spending, public transfers, or taxes. This paper investigates properties of state-contingent debt targeting rules which link stabilizing budgetary adjustments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318110
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Towards Expenditure Rules and Fiscal Sanity in the Euro Area
Hauptmeier, Sebastian - 2010
The study looks at primary expenditure developments in the euro area, its three largest members and four “macro-imbalances” countries for the period 1999-2009. It compares actual expenditure trends with those that would have prevailed if countries had followed neutral policies based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136395
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Major public debt reductions: Lessons from the past, lessons for the future
Nickel, Christiane; Rother, Philipp; Zimmermann, Lilli - 2010
The financial crisis of 2008/2009 has left European economies with a sizeable public debt stock bringing back the question what factors help to reduce these fiscal imbalances. Using data for the period 1985-2009 this paper identifies factors determining major public debt reductions. On average,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605287
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The Euro Area Sovereign Debt Crisis : Safe Haven, Credit Rating Agencies and the Spread of the Fever from Greece, Ireland and Portugal
De Santis, Roberto A. - 2012
from Greece. Specifically, higher risk aversion has increased the demand for the Bund and this is behind the pricing of all … key role in the developments of the spreads for Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. Finally, the rating downgrade in … Greece has contributed to developments in spreads of countries with weaker fiscal fundamentals: Ireland, Portugal, Italy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111942
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Fiscal consolidation in the euro area: long-run benefits and short-run costs.
Coenen, Günter; Mohr, Matthias; Straub, Roland - 2008
In this paper, we examine the macroeconomic effects of alternative fiscal consolidation policies in the New Area-Wide Model (NAWM), a two-country open-economy model of the euro area developed at the European Central Bank (cf. Coenen et al., 2007). We model fiscal consolidation as a permanent...
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