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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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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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How to starve the beast: fiscal and monetary policy rules

Martin, Fernando M. - 2019

Societies often rely on simple rules to restrict the size and behavior of governments. When fiscal and monetary policies are conducted by a discretionary and profligate government, I find that revenue ceilings vastly outperform debt, deficit and monetary rules, both in effectiveness at curbing...

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Potential output and fiscal rules in a monetary union under asymmetric information - 2nd ed

Marattin, Luigi; Meraglia, Simone - 2016 - 2nd edition

We analyze fiscal rules within a Monetary Union in the presence of (i) asymmetric information on member states' potential output and (ii) bail-out among member states. The first-best deficit is contingent on the cycle, that is, on member states' output gap. In the presence of asymmetric...

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Potential output and fiscal rules in a monetary union under asymmetric information

Marattin, Luigi; Meraglia, Simone - 2015

We analyze fiscal rules within a Monetary Union in the presence of (i) asymmetric information about member states' potential output and, therefore, output gap and (ii) bail-out among member states. In our framework, bail-out lowers the scope for signalling (discrimination) by member states...

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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 … having joined EMU or after having breached the Pact in 2003. These results can be explained with the fact that the Pact was …

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The Economic Case for Monetary Union in the European Union

Buiter, Willem H. - 1997

Differential requirements for seigniorage provide a weak case for retaining monetary independence. As regards adjustment to asymmetric shocks, nominal exchange rate flexibility is at best a limited blessing and at worst a limited curse. Absence of significant fiscal redistribution mechanisms...

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The golden rule of public investment : a necessary and sufficient reform of the EU fiscal framework?

Truger, Achim - 2016

proposes the introduction of the traditional public finance golden rule into the EU/Eurozone fiscal framework (Stability and … (SWP) und Fiskalpakt(FP) der EU/Eurozone. Eine solche Regel würde die öffentlichen (Netto-)Investitionen in geeigneter … Finanzpolitik insgesamt größere Spielräume einräumen und die öffentlichen Investitionen als besonders wachstumsrelevante öffentliche …

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Determinants of budget deficits in Europe : the role and relations of fiscal rules, fiscal councils, creative accounting and the Euro

Maltritz, Dominik; Wüste, Sebastian - In: Economic modelling 48 (2015), pp. 222-236

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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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