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We develop a method for measuring the amount of insurance the portfolio of government liabilities provides against scal shocks, and apply it to postwar US data. We dene scal shocks as surprises in defense spending. Our results indicate that the US federal government is partially hedged against...
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We analyse the impact of fiscal policy shocks in the euro area as a whole, using a newly available quarterly dataset of fiscal variables for the period 1981-2007. To allow for comparability with previous results on euro area countries and the US, we use a standard structural VAR framework, and...
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We analyse the impact of government spending shocks on the real effective exchange rate and net exports in the Euro Area within a standard structural VAR framework. We employ a new database that contains quarterly fiscal variables for the Euro Area as a whole. We show that higher government...
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the fiscal characteristics of the new members in the light of the requirements of the SGP and the criticisms levelled against the Pact and to see in what ways their initial conditions differ from those faced by the current euro zone countries in the run-up...
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El nivel de inversión pública de las economías avanzadas se encuentra en mínimos históricos y muestra una tendencia decreciente al menos desde la década de los ochenta. Hay dos hipótesis principales en la literatura que tratan de explicar este hecho. La hipótesis de la «prevalencia del...
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This survey first discusses general characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of different types of fiscal rules. The criterion for classifying them is based on the emphasis given: longterm sustainability (reducing the deficit bias and controlling the growth in public debt) or reducing the...
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La fuerte posición macroeconómica permitió que las economías de América Latina mitigaran el impacto negativo de la crisis financiera usando una política fiscal expansiva, revirtiendo el comportamiento procíclico característico de la región. Al mismo tiempo, en las dos últimas décadas...
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high level of fiscal decentralization, implemented gradually during the past four decades, the parallel entry into force of …
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Las principales propuestas de reforma del marco de política fiscal de la Unión Europea inciden en tres bloques de cuestiones: i) simplificación de las reglas, para dotarlas de mayor transparencia y flexibilidad; ii) incorporación de nuevos instrumentos supranacionales de compartición de...
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Las principales propuestas de reforma del marco de política fiscal de la Unión Europea inciden en tres bloques de cuestiones: i) simplificación de las reglas, para dotarlas de mayor transparencia y flexibilidad; ii) incorporación de nuevos instrumentos supranacionales de compartición de...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014568829