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Budget institutions and fiscal performance in Central and Eastern European countries

Gleich, Holger - 2003

This paper documents the modes of organization of the budget process in ten CEEC and examines the relationship between these institutional settings and fiscal performance. Using detailed information on the budget institutions in these countries, the national budget processes are classified...

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Public finances and long-term growth in Europe

De Ávila, Diego Romero; Strauch, Rolf - 2003

In Lisbon the European Council proclaimed a European growth strategy. It considers an average economic u0093growth rate … countries that public finance reform affects trend growth. Focusing on time series patterns, we investigate whether there have … been persistent shifts or trends in economic growth and fiscal variables over the last 40 years. In addition, we estimate a …

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The design of fiscal rules and forms of governance in European Union countries

Hallerberg, Mark; Strauch, Rolf; Hagen, Jürgen von - 2004

This paper examines the development of fiscal rules and budget procedures in EU countries, and their impact of public finances since the mid-1980s. It presents a new data set on institutional reforms and their impact in Europe. Empirical pattern confirm our prediction that more stringent fiscal...

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Bank loan announcements and borrower stock returns : does bank origin matter?

Ongena, Steven; Roscovan, Viorel - 2009

Banks play a special role as providers of informative signals about the quality and value of their borrowers. Such signals, however, may have a quality of their own as the banks' selection and monitoring abilities may differ. Using an event study methodology, we study the importance of the...

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Economic performance and government size

Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar - 2011

We construct a growth model with an explicit government role, where more government resources reduce the optimal level …-2008, we use different proxies for government size and institutional quality. Our results, consistent with the presented growth … model, show a negative effect of the size of government on growth. Similarly, institutional quality has a positive impact on …

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Canova, Fabio; Ciccarelli, Matteo; Ortega, Eva - 2004

This paper examines the properties of G-7 cycles using a multicountry Bayesian panel VAR model with time variations, unit specific dynamics and cross country interdependences. We demonstrate the presence of a significant world cycle and show that country specific indicators play a much smaller...

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Econometric analysis of high dimensional VARs featuring a dominant unit

Pesaran, M. Hashem; Chudik, Alexander - 2010

This paper extends the analysis of infinite dimensional vector autoregressive models (IVAR) proposed in Chudik and Pesaran (2010) to the case where one of the variables or the cross section units in the IVAR model is dominant or pervasive. This extension is not straightforward and involves...

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Fiscal variables and bond spreads

Nickel, Christiane; Rother, Philipp; Rülke, Jan C. - 2009

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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Weak and strong cross section dependence and estimation of large panels

Chudik, Alexander; Pesaran, Hashem; Tosetti, Elisa - 2009

This paper introduces the concepts of time-specific weak and strong cross section dependence. A double-indexed process is said to be cross sectionally weakly dependent at a given point in time, t, if its weighted average along the cross section dimension (N) converges to its expectation in...

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Nowcasting

Bańbura, Marta; Giannone, Domenico; Reichlin, Lucrezia - 2010

We define nowcasting as the prediction of the present, the very near future and the very recent past. Crucial in this process is to use timely monthly information in order to nowcast key economic variables, such as e.g. GDP, that are typically collected at low frequency and published with long...

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