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The golden rule of public investment : a necessary and sufficient reform of the EU fiscal framework?

Truger, Achim - 2016

It is by now a widely shared insight that fiscal policy needs to be re-strengthened as a macroeconomic policy instrument within European macroeconomic policies: Recent experiences with austerity policies, new research regarding the size of the fiscal multiplier and the fact that monetary policy...

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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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Top-down vs. bottom-up? : reconciling the effects of tax and transfer shocks on output

Gechert, Sebastian; Paetz, Christoph; Villanueva, Paloma - 2016

Using the bottom-up approach of Romer and Romer (2010), we construct a rich narrative dataset of net-revenue fiscal shocks for Germany by reconstructing and extending the tax shock series of Hayo and Uhl (2014) and coding a shock series for social security contributions, benefits and transfers....

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Government spending composition, aggregate demand, growth and distribution

Tavani, Daniele; Zamparelli, Luca - 2015

We study a demand-driven growth and distribution model with a public sector, both without and with government debt. Government spending is used to finance the accumulation of public capital and to pay wages to public employees. The interaction between public capital and induced technical change...

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Long-term effects of fiscal stimulus and austerity in Europe

Gechert, Sebastian; Horn, Gustav A.; Paetz, Christoph - 2017

We analyze whether there are negative (positive) long-term effects of austerity measures (stimulus measures) on potential output growth. Based on the approach of Blanchard and Leigh (2013) and Fatás and Summers (2016) and using a novel dataset of narratively identified fiscal policy shocks, we...

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Austerity, cyclical adjustment and the remaining leeway for expansionary fiscal policies in the Euro area

Truger, Achim - 2014

Fiscal policy in the Euro area is still dominated by austerity measures implemented under the institutional setting of the 'reformed' stability and growth pact, and the even stricter 'fiscal compact'. At the same time, calls for a more expansionary fiscal policy to overcome the economic crisis...

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Are fiscal multipliers regime-dependent? : a meta regression analysis

Gechert, Sebastian; Rannenberg, Ansgar - 2014

We analyze whether estimated multiplier effects are systematically higher if the economy suffers a downturn. For that purpose, we conduct a meta-regression analysis on a unique data set of 98 empirical studies with more than 1800 observations on multiplier effects and control for regime...

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