We study the sustainability of sovereign debt accumulation in 15 OECD countries using quarterly data from 1980 to 2010 … with a focus on how and in what countries debt sustainability changed after the commencement of the Euro Convergence … Criteria in 1997 as well as after the financial meltdown in 2007. We define sustainability as the validity of the inter …

specifically on their degree of success, notably in terms of fiscal sustainability. The "need" to consolidate is based on having a … primary balance above or below the debt-stabilizing primary balance (provided by the IMF's Debt Sustainability Analysis) for … each country. We then link the need for and the actual (historical) existence of fiscal adjustments to their sustainability …

This paper aims to analyse and assess the impact of the COVID pandemic effect on the public debt sustainability level …

debt sustainability over the next decade, taking into account alternative recovery scenarios and associated fiscal … persistent economic effects of the pandemic, risks to the Dutch fiscal and debt sustainability would remain contained …