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The paper discusses the impact of austerity policy on economic performance in the eurozone countries after the global … observed in many economies, especially in the South Europe. The implemented austerity policy under the external pressure not … increasing public debt. Based on the literature and empirical findings, the issue of austerity policy and its potential …
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constraints of the SGP has driven many member states into austerity. In contrast, the golden rule of public investment proposed in …
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Did austerity cause Brexit? This paper shows that the rise of popular support for the UK Independence Party (UKIP), as … to austerity since 2010. In addition to exploiting data from the population of all electoral contests in the UK since … have resulted in a Remain victory had it not been for a range of austerity-induced welfare reforms. Further, auxiliary …
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After a brief introduction dealing with critical opinions of some economists on the European austerity policy, the … authors point out that austerity as a means of achieving fiscal consolidation and financial stability is applied when the … fiscal domain is weak. After analyzing the effects of the 2009 crisis on some indicators and austerity measures taken by …
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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 …
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One of the main functions of public debt is to smooth taxes and spending over time. In the Covid crisis, the Maastricht deficit restrictions were temporarily suspended to allow for large temporary deficits. As recovery sets in, countries are confronted with the task of consolidating the Covid...
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Identifying fiscal multipliers is usually constrained by the absence of a counterfactual scenario. Our new data set allows overcoming this problem by making use of the fact that recommendations under the EU's excessive deficit procedure (EDP) provide both a baseline no-policy-change scenario and...
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