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We empirically assess whether a usually expected negative response of private consumption and private investment to a fiscal consolidation is reversed. We focus on a large sample of 174 countries between 1970 and 2018. We also employ three alternative measures of the Cyclically Adjusted Primary...
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In the present paper a discussion will be made about the crucial topic of fostering entrepreneurship as the cornerstone of capitalism (by avoiding too hard austerity measures and helping instead entrepreneurship in various ways) so as to make corporations profitable and ultimately create jobs,...
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Union, using annual panel data for 14 European Union countries over the period 1970-2012. Different measures for assessing … different budgetary components. Panel Fixed Effects estimations for private consumption show that, in some cases, when fiscal … not matched by monetary easing. Panel probit estimations suggest that longer and expenditure-based consolidations …
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The Great Financial Crisis of 2007-09 confirmed the vital importance of advancing our understanding of macrofinancial linkages, the two-way interactions between the real economy and the financial sector. The crisis was a bitter reminder of how sharp fluctuations in asset prices, credit and...
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Using data for most of the year 2020, we analysed the impact of COVID-19 deaths on a given country regarding the financial market returns of neighbouring countries. Our empirical evidence show that in the first weeks of the COVID-19 outbreak, until mid-March 2020, the spatial effect of COVID-19...
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We identify fiscal impulses in the EU New Member States using four different methods and apply econometric panel data …
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Interest-rate spreads fluctuate widely across time and countries. We illustrate this on the basis of about 3,100 quarterly observations for 21 advanced and 17 emerging economies since the early 1990s. Prior to the financial crisis, spread fluctuations in advanced economies are an order of...
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Interest-rate spreads fluctuate widely across time and countries. We characterize their behavior using some 3,200 quarterly observations for 21 advanced and 17 emerging economies since the early 1990s. Before the financial crisis, spreads are 10 times more volatile in emerging economies than in...
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