Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/66565
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3975
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We provide a first attempt to include off-balance sheet, implicit insurance to SIFIs into a consistent assessment of fiscal sustainability, for 27 countries of the European Union. We first calculate tax gaps à la Blanchard (1990) and Blanchard et al. (1990). We then introduce two alternative measures of implicit off-balance sheet liabilities related to the risk of a systemic bank crisis. The first one relies of microeconomic data at the bank level. The second one relies on econometric estimations of the probability and the cost of a systemic banking crisis, based on historical data. The former approach provides an upper evaluation of the fiscal cost of systemic banking crises, whereas the latter one provides a lower one. Hence we believe that the combined use of these two methodologies helps to gauge the range of fiscal risk.
Subjects: 
fiscal sustainability
tax gap
systemic banking risk
off-balance sheet liabilities
JEL: 
H12
H63
H81
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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