En este artículo se describen los dos regímenes de pensiones extremos que se aplican actualmenteen el mundo: el de reparto simple y el de capitalización individual y se analizan sus efectossobre el ahorro, la inversión, crecimiento económico, empleo y bienestar, así como también...

Using fiscal reaction functions for a panel of actual euro-area countries the paper investigates whether euro membership has reduced the responsiveness of countries to increases in the level of inherited debt compared to the period prior to succession to the euro. While we find some evidence for...

This Note endeavors to illustrate the relevance of the impact of the budget deficit upon the interest rate to the issue of crowding out. It is argued that empirical studies of the impact of deficits upon interest rates may be very useful in det­ermining whether (and how) crowding out occurs,...

This brief Note provides strong empirical evidence that federal govern­ment deficits can indeed have a positive and significant impact upon short­ term interest rates; the findings in this paper thereby establish another mechanism for the transmission of crowding out. This study differs from...

This Working Paper presents an overview of structural budget balance models and the adjustments most relevant for Australia. Three models (the OECD model, the IMF model and Treasury’s previously published model in the Australian Government’s 2009-10 Budget and McDonald et al (2010)) are...

In this article we analyze which are the mutations of public debt stock and public debt service on the structure of public expenditures. We use functional classification of public expenditures and observe their evolution by using multiple regression equation in order to emphasize the shifts of...

El presente artículo realiza una descripción del comportamiento y la evolución del déficit fiscal en Colombia desde el año 1990 hasta el año 2008, realizando un análisis del gasto público y los Ingresos en el mismo período, resaltando los cambios de carácter estructural que se dieron...

This study investigates whether federal government budget deficits in the U.S. over the 1990-99 time period acted to crowd out private investment in new plant and equipment. Using quarterly data, empirical estimations clearly indicate that private investment was in fact negatively impacted by...

This study examines the existence of crowding-out in the United States by determining to what degree the proportion of GNP devoted to private investment in new capital was affected by the proportion of GNP devoted to aggregate federal government spending. The evidence here strongly supports the...

This paper develops a formal theoretical model within which it investigates mathematically the policy implications of adverse business expectations involving deficit financing. It is found that hostility towards deficit financing will always diminish the effectiveness of fiscal policy and render...