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The role of fiscal transfers for regional economic convergence in Europe

Checherita-Westphal, Cristina; Nickel, Christiane; … - 2009

-capita output convergence across a large sample of European regions during the period 1995-2005. We find that net fiscal transfers …. -- Fiscal policy, convergence ; regional economic growth ; regional migration …

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Fiscal Transfers and Economic Convergence

Capella-Ramos, João; Checherita-Westphal, Cristina D.; … - 2021

Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and increase its resilience, inter alia, by speeding up economic convergence. The impact of … transfers in real and business cycle convergence at a regional level. The paper distinguishes between net fiscal transfers – a … provides evidence that net fiscal transfers have contributed to income redistribution across regions and to faster convergence …

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The reform and implementation of the Stability and Growth Pact

Morris, Richard; Ongena, Hedwig; Schuknecht, Ludger - 2006

Fiscal rules are instrumental for restraining deficit and spending biases in euro area Member States that could threaten the smooth functioning of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Ideally, fiscal rules should combine characteristics such as sufficient flexibility to allow for appropriate...

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Fiscal policy challenges in oil-exporting countries – a review of key issues

Sturm, Michael; Gurtner, François; Alegre, Juan Gonzalez - 2009

Fiscal policy choices have a particularly significant impact on economic performance in oil-exporting countries, owing to the importance of the oil sector in the economy and the fact that in most countries oil revenues accrue to the government. At the same time, fiscal policy in oil-centred...

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Public wage and pension indexation in the euro area: An overview

Checherita-Westphal, Cristina (contributor) - 2022

If the responses of wages - both private and public - and of pensions to an increase in inflation lead to second-round effects, this can make an inflationary shock more persistent, especially in the presence of automatic wage and pension indexation. This occasional paper presents an overview of...

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Expectations-driven liquidity traps : implications for monetary and fiscal policy

Nakata, Taisuke; Schmidt, Sebastian - 2019

We study optimal monetary and fiscal policy in a New Keynesian model where occasional declines in agents' confidence can give rise to persistent liquidity trap episodes. Unlike in the case of fundamental-driven liquidity traps, there is no straightforward recipe for mitigating the welfare costs...

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Fiscal activism in the euro area and in other advanced economies : new evidence

Attinasi, Maria Grazia; Palazzo, Alessandra Anna; … - 2019

We review the determinants of the discretionary fiscal policy action of governments in the euro area and in other advanced economies during the past 20 years. This is done by estimating fiscal reaction functions using dynamic panel techniques and country-by-country estimates. The results suggest...

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Effects of state-dependent forward guidance, large-scale asset purchases and fiscal stimulus in a low-interest-rate environment

Coenen, Günter; Montes-Galdon, Carlos; Smets, Frank - 2020

We study the incidence and severity of lower-bound episodes and the efficacy of three types of state-dependent policies - forward guidance about the future path of interest rates, large-scale asset purchases and spending-based fiscal stimulus - in ameliorating the adverse consequences stemming...

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Fiscal reaction function and fiscal fatigue : evidence for the euro area

Checherita-Westphal, Cristina; Žďárek, Václav - 2017

This paper estimates a fiscal reaction function (FRF) framework for euro area countries and derives a novel approach to measure fiscal fatigue. As in previous studies, we find evidence that euro area sovereigns abide, on average, by (weak) sustainability constraints. The primary balance improves...

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The effect of public investment in Europe : a model-based assessment

Jong, Jasper de; Ferdinandusse, Marien; Funda, Josip; … - 2017

We consider the effect of an increase in public investments on output in Europe against the background of a sharp drop of public investments in a number of EU countries during the crisis and subsequent policy discussions on the need to stimulate public investments. We start with a brief overview...

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