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Does politics matter in the conduct of fiscal policy? Political determinants of the fiscal sustainability: Evidence from seven individual Central and…
2007
This paper aims at assessing the fiscal sustainability and its political determinants in seven Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC), namely Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. First, using the recent sustainability approach of Bohn (1998) based on fiscal reaction function, econometric findings using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) reveal a positive response of the primary surplus to changes in debt in several countries. In other words, fiscal policy is sustainable in Baltic countries, Slovenia and Slovakia, but not in Poland and in the Czech Republic. Second, by introducing political dummy variables, we test the electoral budget cycle and the…
A wavelet analysis of US fiscal sustainability
2015
Abstract In this paper, we reassess the relationship between primary deficit and lagged debt to GDP ratio (Bohn, 1998), to test for US debt sustainability over the period 1795–2012. Our analysis is rooted in the wavelet domain enabling the detection of interesting patterns and otherwise hidden information. We find evidence of long term fiscal sustainability but only up until 1995 and also we show that governments tend to respond more vigorously to budget deficits when the level of debt is high rather than low.
Funding System
2015
The entry discusses the 1820 article, Funding System, David Ricardo wrote for the Supplement to the sixth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. It also investigates Ricardo's views on public debt and capital levy
Doing Math in Mussolini’s Pocket : Ernesto Rossi and Fascist Public Finance (1926-1930)
2023
This essay deals with the brief but intense collaboration of Ernesto Rossi with the «Riforma Sociale», a prestigious journal of economics and social sciences founded by Francesco Saverio Nitti in 1894 and directed by Luigi Einaudi since 1908. Between 1926 and 1930, Rossi authored seven long essays on issues of public finance, applied economics, and economic statistics that have been relatively neglected by historiography. The rereading of these contributions allows us to illuminate some central moments in his training as an economist. This essay focuses on four articles he devoted to a deep analysis of the Italian budget and public debt, recalculating public revenues and expenses, with rela…
Considerazioni sulla finanza pubblica italiana tra il XIX ed il XX secolo
2015
This essay deals with the doctrinal debate emerging from articles and editorials by econoil mists published on newspapers such as Corriere della Sera, Il Giornale d'Italia, Il Sole, La Tribuna, Il Mattino, Il Secolo. The debate increased interest in items of public finance from 1890 to the rise of fascism in Italy. During thirty years, public debt, tax reform, fiscal matters, finance during war-time and problems relating to rail transport were the main debated topics. These issues show the economic and financial structure of the country in order to better understand the development opportunities which Italy enjoyed introducing the reform necessary to modernize the economic framework.
CLASSIFICATION OF EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRIES ACCORDING TO NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS AND SOVEREIGN DEBT LEVELS
2013
National competitiveness is defined by World Economic Forum as "the set of institutions, policies, and factors that determine the level of productivity of a country". Therefore, the competitiveness of the European Union member states will be analyzed in the context of the governments' economic policies implemented in the previous period that had as main effects an increased public debt and an exposure of European Union to sovereign debt crisis. This paper attempts to examine how public debt takes its toll on the competitiveness of the EU member countries. So, the researchers will explore the strength of the connection between the percentage of public debt in GDP and the national competitive…
PUBLIC EXPENDITURES FOR DEVELOPMENT - THEIR ROLE IN OVERCOMING THE ECONOMIC CRISIS AND ALIGNMENT OF ROMANIA TO EUROPEAN UNION REQUIREMENTS
2011
This paper analyses the role of public capital expenditure in Romania. There were identified two important roles of public expenditures for development in Romania, currently: levers for overcoming the economic crisis, and a means to align Romania to European Union requirements stipulated in the revised Lisbon Strategy. The analysis concluded that these expenses, although with a relative value twice the EU average, experienced a strong downward trend with the economic crisis, so as they have not contributed to economic recovery. Regarding the second role, matching the EU requirements in development, has not been reached. This is demonstrated by the Lisbon index, according to which in 2008 Ro…