Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/26438 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2393
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We use a 3-step analysis to assess the sustainability of public finances in the EU27. Firstly, we perform the SURADF specific panel unit root test to investigate the mean-reverting behaviour of general government expenditures and revenues ratios. Secondly, we apply the bootstrap panel cointegration techniques that account for the time series and cross-sectional dependencies of the regression error. Thirdly, we check for a structural long-run equation between general government expenditures and revenues via SUR analysis. While results imply that public finances were not unsustainable for the EU panel, fiscal sustainability is an issue in most countries, with a below unit estimated coefficient of expenditure in the cointegration relation.
Subjects: 
Fiscal sustainability
EU
panel cointegration
JEL: 
C23
E62
H62
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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