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The article analyzes macroeconomic forecasts of tax revenue in the Czech Republic. Forecasts are tested for their biases on data from Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. The authors argue that Czech tax-revenue forecasts were highly biased and the hypothesis of unbiasedness could not be rejected...
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The Stability and Growth Pact has become a primary fiscal policy framework in all European countries since 1997. Together with Maastricht fiscal criteria it determines the fiscal discipline of integration process. The aim of this study is to evaluate ex-post effectiveness of the fiscal rules...
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The author of this paper criticizes the broad, cash-flow based concepts of seignorage that were introduced and emphasized by the economic literature of the 1990s (i.e., fiscal seignorage, total seignorage, etc.), which the author argues are ill justified and confusing. On the other hand, the two...
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It is well known that in EMU the degree of similarity in the composition of current expenditures is relevant since the way Member States are affected by external shocks depends at least in part on this composition. In the 8 postsocialist countries recently admitted to the EU (EU-8) the mean...
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suggesting that even a small deficit in primary budget balance can stabilize the debt ratio (30 % of GDP). But in a world of …
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The paper deals with unintended consequences of the monetary union for the level of debt in the member countries of the … the low inflation ones (e.g. Germany). Different rates of growth of private or total domestic debt in individual countries … were closely connected to inflation differentials. Thus the debt was rising very rapidly in high inflation countries …
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