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Saving Europe? : the unpleasant arithmetic of fiscal austerity in integrated economies
Mendoza, Enrique G.; Tesar, Linda L.; Zhang, Jing - 2014
What are the macroeconomic effects of tax adjustments in response to large public debt shocks in highly integrated economies? The answer from standard closed-economy models is deceptive, because they underestimate the elasticity of capital tax revenues and ignore crosscountry spillovers of tax...
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Saving Europe? : the unpleasant arithmetic of fiscal austerity in integrated economies
Mendoza, Enrique G.; Tesar, Linda L.; Zhang, Jing - 2014
Europe's debt crisis casts doubt on the effectiveness of fiscal austerity in highly-integrated economies. Closed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463574
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Using a 'Debt Brake' to Solve Colorado's Debt Crisis
Merrifield, John D. - 2019
In recent years debt in Colorado has increased at an unsustainable rate. A debt brake is simulated for the Colorado economy. When the debt brake is triggered the spending cap imposed by the Tabor Amendment is reduced, with surplus revenue earmarked for debt reduction. The simulation analysis...
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Euro Crisis : From the Sovereigns to the Banks and Back to the Sovereigns
Gurdgiev, Constantin - 2011
The global financial crisis of 2007-2009 crystallized the underlying imbalances that are currently acting to tear apart the Euro area monetary and fiscal systems by focusing markets and public attention on the core cause of the overall Euro crisis, the insolvency of the Euro area member-states...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122727
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Signalling Fiscal Stress in the Euro Area -- A Country-Specific Early Warning System
de Cos, Pablo Hernández - 2014
The sovereign debt crisis in the euro area has increased the interest in early warning indicators, with the aim to indicate the build up of fiscal stress early on and to facilitate crisis prevention by a timely counteraction of fiscal and macroeconomic policies. This paper presents possible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049852
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Signalling Fiscal Stress in the Euro Area : A Country-Specific Early Warning System
de Cos, Pablo Hernández - 2014
The sovereign debt crisis in the euro area has raised interest in early warning indicators, aimed at signalling the build-up of fiscal stress in advance and helping prevent crises by means of a timely counteraction of fiscal and macroeconomic policies. This paper presents possible improvements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050271
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Did fiscal consolidation cause the double dip recession in the euro area?
Heimberger, Philipp - 2015
the euro crisis. It presents new econometric estimates on the link between cumulative GDP growth and fiscal austerity … closely related to the harshness of fiscal austerity. Cumulative multiplier estimates are found to vary in a range from 1.4 to …, a reasonable approximation of the size of the output losses due to fiscal austerity in the euro area during 2011-2013 is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011778844
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Austerity, cyclical adjustment and the remaining leeway for expansionary fiscal policies within the current EU fiscal framework
Truger, Achim - 2015
Fiscal policy in the Euro area is still dominated by austerity measures implemented under the institutional setting of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010511177
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An investment initiative for fiscally constrained EU member states : the role of synergetic financial instruments
Zeilbeck, Severin - 2015
, known as austerity. In opposition to fiscal contraction measures, expansive fiscal action policies are often called for to … initiate economic recovery. But the national interests of austerity's main proponent, performed in an asymmetric … intergovernmental bargaining arena, render most of the proposed expansive action plans impossible and hence austerity is expected to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011380141
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Eurozone : the untold economics
Hatgioannides, John; Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2013
This paper dwells on the Eurozone woes and addresses the origins of the transition from a fictitious boom to a painful … the future of the Eurozone that will halt the tearing of the social fabric of its member states. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687800