In recent years, government revenues in many EU countries experienced significant and erratic changes, which, a priori, could not be fully explained by macroeconomic developments or by discretionary fiscal policy measures. We investigate this issue by estimating "unexplained" changes in tax and...

In recent years, government revenues in many EU countries experienced significant and erratic changes, which, a priori, could not be fully explained by macroeconomic developments or by discretionary fiscal policy measures. We investigate this issue by estimating “unexplained” changes in tax...

This paper presents and evaluates a new approach, temporal aggregation of models, to forecast annual budget deficits using montly information. Using French monthly data on central government revenues and expenditures, the method we propose consists of: 1) estimating monthly ARIMA models for all...