Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/18763 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1399
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper analyses the sustainability of Portuguese public finances, making use of a long dataset with more than a full century of observations. The use of such a long dataset is appropriate because both unit root and cointegration tests require a long period of data. The sustainability testing procedure is based on unit root and cointegration tests. We find considerable evidence in favour of sustainability for the 1903-2003 period. The overall conclusion of sustainability for the 1903-2003 period is not maintained for the more recent 1975-2003 period, which is characterised by the largest GDP deficit ratios of our sample. This latter period appears to signal a shift to an unsustainable path in Portuguese fiscal policy. Hence, our results suggest that fiscal consolidation efforts must, in fact, be continued in Portugal.
Subjects: 
fiscal sustainability
sustainability of public debt
intertemporal budget constraint
government deficits and debt
Portugal
JEL: 
H60
E60
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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