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Macroeconomic uncertainties, prudent debt targets and fiscal rules

Fall, Falilou; Fournier, Jean-Marc - 2015

The sharp rise in debt experienced by most OECD countries raises questions about the prudent debt level countries should target. It also raises questions about the fiscal frameworks needed to reach them and to accommodate cyclical fluctuations along the path towards a prudent debt target. The...

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Limits to government debt sustainability

Fournier, Jean-Marc; Fall, Falilou - 2015

The recent euro area sovereign debt crisis has shown the importance of market reactions for the sustainability of debt. The objective of this paper is to calculate endogenous government debt limits given the markets assessment of the probability to default. The estimated primary balance reaction...

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Fiscal constitutions : an empirical assessment

Blöchliger, Hansjörg; Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw - 2015

Fiscal constitutions comprise the set of rules and frameworks guiding fiscal policy that are enshrined in a country’s fundamental laws. This paper compares the fiscal constitutions of 15 federal countries by empirically assessing five building blocks: 1) the power of sub-national governments...

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Russia : progress in structural reform and framework conditions 2011 - 13

Vaziakova, Yana - 2015

Since 1995 when OECD began conducting Economic Surveys of the Russian Federation many policy recommendations relating to structural reform and framework conditions have been made. This paper is an update of an earlier paper that described actions taken up to October 2011 (Vaziakova et al.,...

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Improving public sector efficiency for more inclusive growth in Latvia

Klein, Caroline; Price, Robert W. - 2015

to achieve convergence of policy outcomes to OECD upper standards is challenging. Efficiency gains in the tax system … could bring additional revenues. The tax base should be expanded by reducing informality, strengthening tax administration … unemployment and income inequality, the tax-benefit system should also be revised as it is now relatively regressive and the tax …

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Europe's new fiscal rules

Barnes, Sebastian; Davidsson, David; Rawdanowicz, Łukasz - 2012

Europe is putting in place a new system of fiscal rules following the euro area sovereign debt crisis and decades of rising government to debt-to-GDP ratios. These include the so-called “six pack” to upgrade the Stability and Growth Pact to a new Treaty incorporating the “fiscal...

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Improving the fiscal framework to enhance growth in an era of fiscal consolidation in Slovakia

Klein, Caroline; Price, Robert W.; Wörgötter, Andreas - 2013

. Raising the effectiveness of tax collection, reforming the tax structure towards less distortive taxes and making more out of …

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Cross-country spillovers from fiscal consolidations

Goujard, Antoine - 2013

In many OECD countries, government debt reached levels over recent years that call for reduction over the medium to longer term to ensure public finance sustainability. This paper investigates the international transmission of fiscal consolidation shocks via trade flows. Using a measure of...

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The effect of government debt, external debt and their interaction on OECD interest rates

Turner, David; Spinelli, Francesca - 2013

In the wake of the financial crisis there has been renewed focus on the importance of a country’s net external debt position in determining domestic interest rates and, relatedly, its vulnerability to a crisis. This paper extends the panel estimation of OECD countries described in Turner and...

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OECD forecasts during and after the financial crisis : a post mortem

Pain, Nigel; Lewis, Christine; Dang, Thai Thanh; Jin, Yosuke - 2014

This paper assesses the OECD’s projections for GDP growth and inflation during the global financial crisis and recovery, focussing on lessons that can be learned. The projections repeatedly over-estimated growth, failing to anticipate the extent of the slowdown and later the weak pace of the...

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