Fiscal Adjustment in EU Countries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fiscal Adjustment in EU Countries write by Mr.Kenji Moriyama. This book was released on 2004-08-01. Fiscal Adjustment in EU Countries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Several European Union countries have recently implemented or are envisaging fiscal that operations improve budgetary figures but have no structural impact on government finances. This paper evaluates some of these measures using a balance sheet approach. In particular, it examines the degree to which reductions in government debt in EU countries has been accompanied by a decumulation of government assets. In the run-up to Maastricht (1997) it finds a strong correlation between changes in government liabilities and government assets, and larger declines in government assets in countries starting from higher public debt levels.
Fiscal Consolidation in Southeastern European Countries
Fiscal Consolidation in Southeastern European Countries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fiscal Consolidation in Southeastern European Countries write by Mr.Brian Olden. This book was released on 2012-05-01. Fiscal Consolidation in Southeastern European Countries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This paper assesses the relative strengths and weaknesses of fiscal institutions in ten Southeastern European countries, using recent benchmarking methodologies developed by FAD. The assessment evaluates each country’s understanding of the scale of the fiscal adjustment challenge, its ability to develop a credible consolidation strategy, and its capacity to implement the strategy. Key institutional arrangements, are generally in place, including top-down budgeting and medium-term budget frameworks. Other institutional arrangements require further attention, including macro-fiscal forecasting, fiscal risk analysis, setting fiscal objectives, presence and role of independent fiscal agencies, and top-down parliamentary approval.
Effects of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) on Taxation and Interest Spending of National Governments
Effects of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) on Taxation and Interest Spending of National Governments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Effects of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) on Taxation and Interest Spending of National Governments write by Mr.Francesco P. Mongelli. This book was released on 1997-07-01. Effects of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) on Taxation and Interest Spending of National Governments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This paper examines the interest spending and taxation channels through which EMU could affect the public finances. It provides a framework for examining different views on a further narrowing of interest rate differentials. A model of Blanchard and Fischer is amended to analyze the two channels, and empirical evidence on the tax harmonization process is presented. The paper argues that “high-debt” and “high-tax” countries pursuing prudent fiscal policies could benefit the most from EMU: if monetary and widespread fiscal discipline are jointly established, interest rates could decline rapidly, while tax harmonization is likely to be gradual.
Modeling Optimal Fiscal Consolidation Paths in a Selection of European Countries
Modeling Optimal Fiscal Consolidation Paths in a Selection of European Countries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modeling Optimal Fiscal Consolidation Paths in a Selection of European Countries write by Mr.Daniel Kanda. This book was released on 2011-07-01. Modeling Optimal Fiscal Consolidation Paths in a Selection of European Countries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For a number of countries - Italy, Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, and France - this paper develops an inter-temporal model that elicits the implied country-preferences over balancing the conflicting objectives of fiscal consolidation and reduction of economic slack. The model suggests that some front-loading of adjustment is desirable, although the extent would vary by country preferences. It also finds that proposed consolidations may prove to be stronger than acceptable, especially if somewhat larger than anticipated fiscal multipliers lead to a sizeable economic deceleration.
The Longer-term Fiscal Challenges Facing the European Union
The Longer-term Fiscal Challenges Facing the European Union - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Longer-term Fiscal Challenges Facing the European Union write by Jeromin Zettelmeyer. This book was released on 2023. The Longer-term Fiscal Challenges Facing the European Union available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The pandemic and subsequent price shocks triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, have increased longer-term fiscal pressures in the European Union through higher debt, higher expected real interest rates and higher public investment needs. This Policy Brief makes some simple quantitative assessments of those effects and discusses policy implications, with the following results. First, long-term increases in primary fiscal balances required to offset higher debt and higher expected real interest rates are in the range of 0.5 percent to 1.5 percent of GDP for most EU countries. However, because of pre-existing differences in fiscal space, not all countries will need to undertake that adjustment, while some countries may need to adjust by substantially more. Among the 21 EU countries for which we have data to undertake this analysis, 14 will need to adjust by more than they were planning to do by 2025. Second, the required additional fiscal adjustment looks manageable, although it is substantial in some cases. To achieve medium-term debt-reducing primary balances, several EU countries will need to raise primary balances by more than 2 percent of GDP above their 2025 target, but no country will need additional fiscal adjustment of more than 3 percent of GDP. Third, market data suggests that the future path of real interest rates is very uncertain. Compared to the period immediately preceding the pandemic, longer-term expected real interest rates have increased by about 2 percentage points but remain low on average, at about 1 percent in real terms. Future developments depend on whether the structural factors that led to low interest rates in the first place persist or unwind. While interest rates might decline again, fiscal policymakers should not make plans that assume such a decline. Fourth, public spending needs for additional defence and climate spending run well above 1 percent of GDP per year. These needs do not appear to have been incorporated into current fiscal baselines, and hence will come on top of the adjustment described above. To ensure that fiscal adjustment does not defeat its purpose by slowing growth, it is essential that it is conducted gradually. In countries that require such adjustment, it should start as soon as cyclical conditions allow.
