Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/159862 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Quaderni - Working Paper DSE No. 1024
Publisher: 
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche (DSE), Bologna
Abstract: 
Fiscal distress of local governments and municipalities is a non-negligible component of the public finance turmoil after the Great Recession. In this paper we consider a dataset of Italian municipalities over the period 2000-2012 and look for the main budget determinants of local default. According to our results the default probability is positively affected by the share of loan repayment over total spending. This result is robust to alternative model specifications as well as inclusion of fixed effects, time dummies and macroeconomic control variables.
JEL: 
H72
H74
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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