What role can better quality of public finances play in supporting Europe's long-term economic growth prospects? This question was at the centre of the 2008 European Commission workshop on public finances. It was largely motivated by the pressures put on European economies and their budgets from...

En este trabajo se ilustran los efectos de distintas medidas de consolidación fiscal sobre la actividad económica mediante simulaciones realizadas con un modelo de equilibrio general calibrado para la economía española. Los resultados muestran que, con carácter general, el proceso de...

In this paper our objective is to analyze sustainable debt policy rules and economic growth using a model of endogenous economic growth theory. For the government it is possible to run into debt, but, the primary surpulus is a positive linear function of the debt-to-GDP ratio which guarantees...