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Reducing sovereign debt levels in the post-Covid Eurozone with a simple deficit rule
Jost, Thomas; Tödter, Karl-Heinz - 2021
Debt levels in the eurozone have reached new record highs. The member countries have tried to cushion the economic … as well as with the hypothetical application of the new fiscal rule to eurozone economies from 2022 to 2026. Finally, we … take up the recent proposal by ESM economists to increase the permissible debt ratio from 60 to 100% of GDP in the eurozone. …
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Impact of fiscal institutions on public finances in the European Union : review of evidence in the empirical literature
Gorčák, Martin; Šaroch, Stanislav - In: Národohospodářský obzor : časopis věnovaný … 21 (2021) 2, pp. 215-232
This paper examines the impact of budgetary institutions on public finances in the European Union on the basis of a critical survey of the relevant theoretical and empirical literature. In general, the authors find that fiscal institutions (namely fiscal rules) have successfully contributed to...
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What do deficits tell us about debt? : empirical evidence on creative accounting with fiscal rules in the EU
Hagen, Jürgen von; Wolff, Guntram B. - 2006
Fiscal rules, such as the Excessive Deficit Procedure and the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP), aim at constraining government behavior. Milesi-Ferretti (2003) develops a model in which governments circumvent such rules by reverting to creative accounting. The amount of this depends on the...
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Fiscal rules in economic crisis : the trade-off between consolidation and recovery, from a European perspective
Díaz Roldán, Carmen; Ferrari Filho, Fernando; Da … - In: Economics : the open-access, open-assessment journal 15 (2021) 1, pp. 199-216
In this study, we will perform a simulation exercise to investigate whether the use of explicit fiscal rules improves the macroeconomic performance in the economic framework of the European Union (EU), where the fall in income levels occurred very asymmetrically, and this has accentuated the...
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Deficit policy within the framework of the stability and growth pact : empirical results and lessons for the fiscal compact
Afflatet, Nicolas - 2016
This paper examines the question whether joining EMU or the breach of the Stability and Growth Pact in 2003 had an impact on the deficit policy of member states. The empirical analysis gives no hint for an alteration of deficit policy after having joined EMU or after having breached the Pact in...
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Primary surplus and debt projections based on estimated fiscal reaction functions for euro area countries
Plödt, Martin; Boeing-Reicher, Claire - 2014
We project the path of the public debt and primary surpluses for a number of countries in the euro area under a fiscal rule based on a set of estimated fiscal policy reaction functions. Our fiscal rule represents a fiscal analogue to a well-known monetary policy rule, and it is calibrated using...
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Investment and the golden rule in the European Union
Marinescu, Ada Cristina - In: Financial studies 22 (2018) 1, pp. 53-63
We will study in this paper the relation between public investment, public debt and fiscal rules in the European Union countries. The strict fiscal rules imposed by EU have negatively affected the investments. The decline in public investment in European Union is related to the fiscal rules...
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Assessing debt sustainability in a stochastic environment : 200 years of Dutch debt and deficit management
Wijnbergen, Sweder van; France, Alexander - 2012
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The Sustainability of Public Finanaces and Fiscal Policy Coordination in the EMU
von Hagen, Jürgen - 2010
The financial crisis of 2007-2009 led to a renewed increase in government deficits and debts in many EU countries, causing a full-fledged fiscal crisis in Greece and severe fiscal pressures in other euro-area countries. This has prompted a series of proposals for improving the fiscal framework...
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The Economic and Monetary Union : Past, Present and Future
Dabrowski, Marek - 2019
Twenty years of euro history confirms the euro's stability and position as the second global currency. It also enjoys the support of majority of the euro area population and is seen as a good thing for the European Union. The European Central Bank has been successful in keeping inflation at a...
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