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...

We examine the long-run GDP impacts of changes in total government expenditure and in the shares of different spending categories for a sample of OECD countries since the 1970s, taking account of methods of financing expenditure changes and possible endogenous relationships. We provide more...

Intro -- COMPARATIVE PUBLIC BUDGETING -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- 1. COMPARATIVE BUDGETING -- 2. BUDGETING IN THE UNITED STATES -- 3. COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES -- 4. BUDGETING IN EUROPE AND THE EUROPEAN UNION -- 5. CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION...