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A Synthesis of Empirical Research in the Sustainability of Fiscal Policy

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Title A Synthesis of Empirical Research in the Sustainability of Fiscal Policy
 
Creator PAPARAS, Dimitrios; Land, Farm and Agribusiness Management Department, Harper Adams University, U.K.
RICHTER, Christian; German University in Cairo, Department of Management Technology, New Cairo City, Egypt.
PAPARAS, Alexandros
 
Description Abstract. In the last twenty years many developed countries have faced significant public deficits, while the ability of government authorities to deal with public deficits has been receiving rising awareness from economists and policy makers. This is an imperative topic, in provisions of economics and public policy, and it is a central subject for the EMU area; hence, they are the main motivations of this paper. Theoretically, equilibrium growth paths have to be supported by adequate fiscal policy. The risk of a default on Greek sovereign debt during the last years has worried the Euro into its first serious crisis and raised the issue of debt sustainability in Europe. There is no universally accepted definition for sustainable fiscal policy. However, economists agree that expanding public debt is not sustainable. Budget policy is constrained by the need to finance the deficit. In this paper we provide a synthesis of empirical research in the validity of the Sustainability of Fiscal Policy of the existing literature for the period 1986-2012. These studies used both time series and panel data sets and empirically examined the Sustainability of fiscal policy for a single country and for a group of countries (multi-country studies). Furthermore, there are studies using data on government expenditure at the provincial or state level. Existing studies in this topic vary in the country selection. They used data for developed, developing countries or group of both, while most of them examined developed or industrial countries. All these studies found different empirical results: support, no support or mixed results.Keywords. Fiscal policy sustainability; Budget deficits; Government debt; cointegration; structural breaks.JEL. E62, H62, H63.
 
Publisher Journal of Economics Bibliography
 
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Date 2015-12-18
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
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Identifier http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JEB/article/view/557
10.1453/jeb.v2i4.557
 
Source Journal of Economics Bibliography; Vol 2, No 4 (2015): December; 164-183
2149-2387
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JEB/article/view/557/636
 
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