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The Stability and Growth Pact sets a medium-term target for fiscal policy of a budgetary position "close to balance of in surplus". This addition to the deficit rule defined by the Maastricht Treaty has been interpreted as an attempt to reconcile the objective of sound public finances with the...
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financial stress measure, the debt-to-GDP ratio, borrowing costs and real GDP growth. Our model allows for the impact of debt … low as opposed to the high-growth regime. We also find that positive shocks to debt/GDP depress economic growth and raise …
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Our study aims to compare the level of redistribution, and expenditure structure of the Visegrád countries in the period between 1995–2010. For the purpose of comparability, the new methodology presented in the study filters out those components of total expenditures, which are exogenous in...
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This paper investigates the long-run effects of public debt and inflation on economic growth. Our contribution is both … over the 1965-2010 period, we find significant negative long-run effects of public debt and inflation on growth. Our … results indicate that, if the debt to GDP ratio is raised and this increase turns out to be permanent, then it will have …
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the same time, private debt levels, particularly those of financial institutions and households, are in uncharted …, restructuring of public and private debts. A more subtle form of debt restructuring in the guise of "financial repression" (which … had its heyday during the tightly regulated Bretton Woods system) also importantly facilitated sharper and more rapid debt …
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The U.S recession of 2007 to 2009 is unique in the post-World-War-II experience by the broad company it kept. Activity contracted around the world, with the advanced countries of the North experiencing declines in spending normally the purview of the developing economies of the South. The last...
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public and private debts. Sometimes the debt restructuring is subtle and takes the form of, “financial repression.” In the … reduction in public debt/GDP ratios from the late 1940s to the 1970s. In this paper, we summarize our findings for the post …
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, the positive impact of debt relief on low-income countries (LICs), and positive growth trends for the world economy … economies were able to reduce the vulnerabilities of their debt portfolios and debt management was being carried out under … favorable circumstances. Average maturities increased, reflecting increases in the maturities of new debt issuances, and …
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public and private debts. Sometimes the debt restructuring is more subtle and takes the form of 'financial repression … facilitated a sharp and rapid reduction or 'liquidation' of public debt from the late 1940s to the 1970s. The restrictions or …
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surplus. By the end of the year the debt-gdp ratio is likely to be about 66%- below the EU average and almost 30 points lower …
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