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stabilize its economy and repay debt obligations. This article explains the debt process in Greece from the 1980s to date, and … faced unprecedented financial problems. Greece was the most severe case requiring intervention from the EU and IMF to … the prospects of debt stabilization. An alternative scenario is discussed showing that stabilization can become more …
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Employing a stochastic Brownian pattern for labor income under liquidity constraints, the paper derives closed-form solutions for households" consumption and shows how both the multiplier and the variability of consumption increased after the global crisis and were further enhanced by the...
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Employing a stochastic Brownian pattern for labor income under liquidity constraints, the paper derives closed-form solutions for households’ consumption and shows how both the multiplier and the variability of consumption increased after the global crisis and were further enhanced by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010927993
imprecision about which debt targets should be pursued. It then examines the evidence regarding the exogenous and policy …
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, led to the escalation of Greek debt, while the government's delay in responding to the crisis increased the cost of … borrowing and necessitated the bail-out agreement with the IMF and the European Union. One year later, Greece is struggling to … harness fiscal deficits amidst a deep recession and rising social tension. Debt sustainability has not yet been ensured and …
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The article examines the timetable of the introduction and the sudden abandoning of program budgeting in Greece. The …
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debt was derailed by the global crisis. Restoring the strategy is a priority, especially as spreads on Belgian debt have …
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imprecision about which debt targets should be pursued. It then examines the evidence regarding the exogenous and policy …
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This paper traces the evolution of fiscal institutions of Resource Rich Arab Economies (RRAEs) over time since their pre-oil days, through the discovery of oil to their build-up of oil exports. It then identifies challenges faced by RRAEs and variations in their severity among the different...
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This paper estimates the causal effect of fiscal rules on fiscal balances in a panel of 142 countries over the period 1985-2015. Our instrumental variable strategy exploits the geographical diffusion of fiscal rules across countries. The intuition is that reforms in neighboring countries may...
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