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A medium-sized, open-economy, fiscal DSGE model of South Africa

Kemp, Johannes Hermanus; Hollander, Hylton - 2020

Much of the research on fiscal multipliers has used reduced form modelling approaches. While these models have been extended to include richer controls and identification approaches, it remains unclear whether shocks identified capture the true structural shocks. An alternative way to identify...

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Tax cuts starve the beast! : evidence from Germany

Fuest, Clemens; Neumeier, Florian; Stöhlker, Daniel - 2019

The 'starving the beast' hypothesis claims that tax cuts lead to lower public spending, rather than higher debt levels and higher taxes in the future. This paper uses the institutional setting of German fiscal federalism to its advantage in order to explore how fiscal policy reacts to exogenous...

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Partisan fiscal policy : evidence from Central and Eastern Europe

Schneider, Ondřej - 2019

This paper examines effects of political ideology of a governing party on fiscal outcomes, using data from eight Central and Eastern European countries in the 2001-2017 period. The analysis shows that there is a statistically significant effect of conservative governments on fiscal variables,...

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The economic and monetary union : past, present and future

Dąbrowski, 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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Inflation dynamics under fiscal deficit regime switching in Mexico

Ramos-Francia, Manuel; García-Verdú, Santiago; … - 2018

We explore the dynamics of inflation, inflation expectations, and seigniorage-financed fiscal deficits in Mexico. To do so, we estimate the model in Sargent, Williams, and Zha (2009) using Mexican CPI inflation data. This model features dual expected inflation equilibriums and regime switching...

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

Larch, Martin; Orseau, Eloïse; Van der Wielan, Wouter - 2020

shocks, discretionary measures remain ill-timed from a stabilisation perspective even when observable and politically more …

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Economic stabilisation and performance in West Africa : the role of fiscal and monetary policy

Mesagan, Ekundayo P.; Yusuf, Ismaila A. - 2019

The study examines the impact of fiscal and monetary policy on economic performance and stabilisation in Nigeria … proxy economic performance and economic stabilisation respectively while fiscal policy is captured with deficit finance and … confirms that monetary policy significantly drives economic stabilisation in Nigeria and the Gambia, but insignificantly in …

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Government debt and inflation : a cross-country investigation of the fiscal theory of the price level

Weber, Philipp; Feld, Lars P. - 2025

In the early 2020s sharp surge of inflation, unprecedentedly high levels of government debt and deficits fueled attention for the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level (FTPL). This theoretical framework for fiscally induced inflation is well-known and controversially discussed. However, empirical...

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The scarring effects of major economic downturns : the role of fiscal policy and government investment

Larch, Martin; Claeys, Peter; Van Der Wielen, Wouter - 2022

stabilisation tool. At the same time, there is ample evidence that major economic downturns produce lasting effects on real GDP in … fiscal expansion, and (ii) find the right time to pivot from short-term stabilisation to fiscal consolidation while …

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Debt limit, fiscal space and fiscal fatigue in the Central and Eastern European countries of EU

Iancu, Aurel; Olteanu, Dan - 2023

This study analyzes the correlation between the primary budget balance and the public debt over the last two decades, for a panel of 12 countries from Central and Eastern Europe, in order to assess their debt sustainability, the level of debt at which fiscal fatigue may occur, as well as the...

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