Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/153466 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 1032
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We use a new approach to assess long-term fiscal developments. By analyzing the time varying behaviour of the two components of government spending and revenue - responsiveness and persistence - we are able to infer about the sources of fiscal behaviour. Drawing on quarterly data we estimate recursively these components within a system of government revenue and spending equations using a Three-Stage Least Square method. In this way we track fiscal developments, i.e. possible fiscal deteriorations and/or improvements for eight European Union countries plus the US. Results suggest that positions have not significantly changed for Finland, France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and the US, whilst they have improved for Belgium, Italy, and the Netherlands.
Subjects: 
Fiscal Deterioration
Fiscal sustainability
JEL: 
E62
H50
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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