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Fiscal policy constitutes a key tool for business cycle stabilisation next to monetary policy. In this context, having a well-suited macroeconomic model for analysing fiscal policy at a central bank is of primary importance. This paper documents the fiscal block of the ECB-BASE, which is a...
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set theory (POSET), using the EC's fiscal rules dataset, which allows us to analyze the stringency of fiscal rules for …
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We investigate the political determinants of risk premiums which sub-national governments in Switzerland have to pay for their sovereign bond emissions. For this purpose we make use of financial market data from 288 tradable cantonal bonds in the period from 1981 to 2007. Our main focus is on...
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In the discussions of the need for fiscal rules and their usefulness in a monetary union researchers have not agreed on whether the financial markets have a sufficiently disciplining effect on the governments, which would mean that the fiscal rules are not necessary. This paper investigates...
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Sound Management of Public Finance at sub-national level is important for efficiency and effectiveness of government intervention programs. The state government presented ‘White Paper on Haryana State Finances' in an attempt to capture the trends of financial instabilities and weakness in...
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State-owned enterprises (SOEs) provide opportunities for a more flexible and market-based provision of public services. At the same time, they may impair fiscal transparency and offer politicians discretion in the presence of strict fiscal rules if these only constrain the core udget. Using a...
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from Austria and Germany -- PART II. Bailouts and Insolvency -- Preventing Local Government Defaults: No-Bailout Policy and … its Alternatives -- Municipalities and Excessive Debt – Local Insolvency Regimes as an Alternative to Bailouts? -- Four … throughout provide a broad picture of local public finance regulation in theory and in practice, using different theoretical and …
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throughout provide a broad picture of local public finance regulation in theory and in practice, using different theoretical and … as for scholars and for theory-driven research. …
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This paper examines the impact of bank concentrationon bank financial distress using a balanced panel of commercial banks in the EU‐25 over a sample period running from 2003 to 2007. Financial distress is proxied by the observations falling below a given threshold of the empirical distribution...
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To what extent should local and regional governments in the European Union be allowed to determine their own fiscal policies? This book explores the core issues of fiscal federalism in the European context. It combines theoretical and empirical analysis in addressing such questions as: what sort...
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