The issue of central bank communication on fiscal policy has so far received very little attention in the literature. This article aims to shed light on the determinants of central bank communication on fiscal policy by analysing the intensity of central banks’ fiscal communication for five...

This chapter surveys intergenerational altruism in neoclassical growth models. It first examines Barro's approach to intergenerational altruism, whereby successive generations are linked by recursive altruistic preferences. Individuals have an altruistic concern only for their children, who in...

While the established literature on central bank communication has traditionally dealt with communication of monetary policy messages to financial markets and the wider public, central bank communication on fiscal policy has so far received little attention. This paper empirically reviews the...

The methodological issues and econometric problems in the empirical assessment of the determinants of growth are systematically reviewed in the first part of the paper by Hiebert, Lamo, de Ávila and Vidal. In the second part, the authors assess empirically the long-run effects of fiscal policy...

This paper presents a survey of methods to assess fiscal soundness, i.e. the capability of governments to honor their obligations in the short run and in the long run. The need for a comprehensive monitoring of fiscal soundness derives from the risks for economic stability arising from a...