This paper analyses the cyclicality of fiscal policy (discretionary versus automatic) for 28 advanced economies over 1995-2021 by paying special attention to the Covid-19 crisis. We find evidence that discretionary fiscal policy during the Covid-19 crisis (2020-2021) was significantly more...

As part of the CITI4GREEN project, this contribution analyzes the public interventions contained in Re-START "Territorial Resilience of the Central Apennines Earthquake Reconstruction'' assessing their impacts on the sustainability guidelines posed by the United Nations through the establishment...

The European Union's new fiscal framework aims to incentivise public investment and reforms by offering the option to extend the four-year fiscal adjustment period to seven years, thereby lowering the average annual fiscal adjustment requirement. Investments and reforms proposed by EU countries...