productivity shocks and (ii) a mildly counter-cyclical behaviour with fiscal spending shocks. We also use a Panel Vector Auto …-up ; VAR ; Panel VAR …

specific panel unit root test to investigate the mean-reverting behaviour of general government expenditures and revenues … ratios. Secondly, we apply the bootstrap panel cointegration techniques that account for the time series and cross … and revenues via SUR analysis. While results imply that public finances were not unsustainable for the EU panel, fiscal …

specific panel unit root test to investigate the meanreverting behaviour of general government expenditure and revenue ratios …. Secondly, we apply the bootstrap panel cointegration techniques that account for the time series and cross … and revenues via SUR analysis. While results imply that public finances were not unsustainable for the EU panel, fiscal …