consumption are estimated for the EU15 countries, using annual data over the period 1970-2005. Three alternative approaches to … government final consumption, social transfers, and taxes), depending on the specification and on the time span used. On the …

period on private consumption. Thereby, we also take the specific context of the transition towards EMU explicitly into …

. While there is abundant evidence that remittances facilitate consumption smoothing in receving countries, the literature has … impact of remittances on the stability of household consumption, using both cross-country and household-level datasets. Our … focus is on whether the consumption-smoothing effect changes with fiscal policy phases and whether remittances and …

consumption confirms that fiscal policy changes - both contractions and expansions - can have non-Keynesian effects if they are … sufficiently large and persistent, and suggests that these effects can result not only from changes in public consumption but to … decrease in net taxes (with almost no change in public consumption) was associated with a dramatic fall in private domestic …