The aim of our paper is to explore empirically the existence of the long-run relationship and the direction of causality between the budget and current account deficits for some selected Central and Eastern European economies. Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia are...

This paper evaluates the effect of disaggregated fiscal spending (consumption, capital formation and budget deficit) on private investment in both developed and developing countries using a panel data over the period of 2000-09. The results indicate that the elasticity of private investment with...

In conditions of high exchange rate volatility, entities conducting foreign trade transactions are subject to currency risk exposures, which may have a significant impact on financial performance and operating profitability. The research approach is oriented to identify the possibility to...

This paper examines the impact of sectorial reforms on current account imbalances, with a special focus on the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In particular, we investigate to what extent reforms pertaining to the financial sector, social protection, and healthcare may contribute to a...

This paper deals with the consequences of signing the Treaty on the establishment, coordination and governance in the European Union, also known as the "Tax Treaty". Thus, our article presents some general concepts on the relationship between taxation, fiscal policy and the European Union,...

International economic and financial crisis triggered in 2008 showed, on the one hand that for policy makers, the system of current statistics (national accounts) suffers from some fundamental structural weaknesses due to lack of relevant information and quality of existing data and, on the...

This paper investigates the implications of the size of budget deficit in the open economy under perfect mobility of capital. For that purpose we construct a general equilibrium model with consumers maximizing the discounted utility of consumption, and firms maximizing profits. Government sets...

A budget deficit finds itself among the issues most often discussed in the field of the public finance. A budget deficit is influenced by factors of a varied character. It can result from excessive budgetary expenditure on the militarization of economy, on developed state administration,...

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it presents a very concise way of measuring fiscal stance. This procedure is based on the assumption that the ‘neutral change’ in the government budget can best be simulated with a long-term approximation of the underlying trend of total output....

A number of macroeconomic troubles led the Hungarian Government to the introduction of an adjustment program in July 2006.