This paper empirically analyses fiscal policy behavior in the European Union (EU) Member States and assesses how it has changed during the recent pandemic crisis compared to previous crisis situations. Based on panel estimations the outcomes reveal that this time is different, both concerning...

In 1999, the euro was launched on the basis of treaties structured around the new economic orthodoxy that replaced Keynesianism. The Great Recession, the Euro Crisis and now the Pandemic Crisis, all of them deflationary demand crises which are incompatible with such an orthodoxy, have had a...

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