Austerity measures are frequently enacted when the sustainability of public finances is in doubt. Such doubts are reflected in high sovereign yield spreads and put further strain on government finances. Is austerity successful in restoring market confidence, bringing about a reduction in yield...

Many researchers have recommended to increase public debt in the aftermath of the fi nancial crisis in order to relax borrowing constraints for private households. This advice is based on the common assumption that borrowing conditions of private agents are exogenous to public policy. We study...

The paper analyses the empirical relationship between bank risk and sovereign credit risk in the euro area. Using structural VAR with daily financial markets data for 2003-13, the analysis confirms two-way causality between shocks to sovereign risk and bank risk, with the former being overall...

Lo studio presenta un'analisi ex-post delle determinanti del comportamento fiscale di 21 paesi dell'OECD e una valutazione dell'impatto delle regole fiscali europee. È stato testato se il Trattato di Maastricht, il Patto di Stabilità e Crescita e la riforma del Patto del 2005 abbiano raggiunto...

Die Unternehmen investieren seit der globalen Wirtschaftskrise eher verhalten in neue Ausrüstungen in Deutschland. Der aus Maschinen und Geräte bestehende Kapitalstock stagniert bereits seit dem Jahr 2008. Das ist die längste Phase ohne einen Kapitalaufbau in diesem Bereich seit 1991. Eine...

The global financial crisis of 2007–2008, consequences of which continue to adversely affect the world economy, is often called a ‘Minsky crisis’. A prominent American economist Hyman Philip Minsky studied capitalist economic system paying special attention to its major properties, in...

In the present study the economic, political and institutional sources of budgets deficits are analysed for two regions South Asia and ASEAN countries for the period 1984 to 2010. The results reveal that high income, rising inflation and large budget to GDP ratio are associated with budget...

This study aims to review how the Eurozone has been formed and to analyze how it has been formed on weak roots, both in public finance and politics. Contrary to economical ideas, political grounds tested the endeavor of creating a powerful the monetary union. Hence, it was very clean to predict...

The financial crisis has triggered a new consensus among economists that it is necessary to include a banking sector in macroeconomic models. It is also necessary for the finance and banking literature to consider how best to incorporate systemic, macroeconomic feedbacks into its modelling of...