The policy focus on excessive leverage in the euro area has raised interest in developing comprehensive analytical approaches to better understand the interrelationship between leverage and deleveraging processes across economic agents. In particular, the interplay between government debt and...

This paper summarises the accounting principles and methodology used by statisticians within the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) to assess the impact on the government's fiscal position of the assistance measures undertaken to support the financial sector during the financial crisis. It...

This paper reviews the development of the quality of the main fiscal data released through the Excessive Deficit Pr ocedures (EDP) since the euro's introduction. As such, this paper presents the outcome of various econometric tests based on all the vintages of the annual main fiscal data...

To carry out the analysis required for monetary policy, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) need comprehensive and reliable government finance statistics. The focus of government finance statistics has traditionally been the government as a whole...

Seit Dezember 2018 liegen die Daten der VGR in Form einer Zeitreihe für die Jahre 1995 - 2018 nach den Konzepten des Europäischen Systems Volkswirtschaftlicher Gesamtrechnungen 2010 (ESVG 2010) vor. Es handelt sich dabei um revidierte Werte. Die Realwerte werden als verkettete Volumenindizes...