With this paper, our objective is to empirically study public debt sustainability by estimating a fiscal reaction …

arrest the increase in the debt-to-GDP ratio and regain fiscal sustainability, and if so, why did they fail? Establishing … fiscal sustainability can be done directly or indirectly. Doing it directly entails the government increasing the primary … sustainability is through the impact of expenditure and revenue on economic growth. Leaving revenue for further study later, this …

We study the sustainability of sovereign debt accumulation in 15 OECD countries using quarterly data from 1980 to 2010 … with a focus on how and in what countries debt sustainability changed after the commencement of the Euro Convergence … Criteria in 1997 as well as after the financial meltdown in 2007. We define sustainability as the validity of the inter …

specifically on their degree of success, notably in terms of fiscal sustainability. The "need" to consolidate is based on having a … primary balance above or below the debt-stabilizing primary balance (provided by the IMF's Debt Sustainability Analysis) for … each country. We then link the need for and the actual (historical) existence of fiscal adjustments to their sustainability …