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Fiscal transfers and economic convergence

Capella-Ramos, João; Checherita-Westphal, Cristina; … - 2020

Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and increase its resilience, inter alia, by speeding up economic convergence. The impact of … transfers in real and business cycle convergence at a regional level. The paper distinguishes between net fiscal transfers – a … provides evidence that net fiscal transfers have contributed to income redistribution across regions and to faster convergence …

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Do EU fiscal rules support or hinder counter-cyclical fiscal policy?

Larch, Martin; Orseau, Eloïse; Van Der Wielen, Wouter - 2020

Rather than stabilising aggregate demand, discretionary fiscal policy tends to amplify cyclical fluctuations of output. The commonly accepted reasons are political economy and uncertainty. In the EU, the pro-cyclical nature of discretionary fiscal policy has also been associated with the...

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EDGE-M3: a dynamic general equilibrium micro-macro model for the EU member states

D'Andria, Diego; DeBacker, Jason; Evans, Richard W.; … - 2020

This paper provides a technical description of the overlapping generations model used by the Joint Research Centre to analyse tax policy reforms, including in particular pension and demographic issues. The main feature of the EDGE-M3 model lies in its high level of disaggregation and the close...

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Debt sustainability analysis for euro area sovereigns : a methodological framework

Bouabdallah, Othman; Checherita-Westphal, Cristina; … - 2017

The euro area sovereign debt crisis has highlighted the importance of reducing public debt levels and building up sufficient fiscal buffers during normal and good times. It has also reaffirmed the need for a thorough debt sustainability analysis (DSA) to act as a warning system for national...

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