Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/231658 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Citation: 
[Journal:] Financial Studies [ISSN:] 2066-6071 [Volume:] 22 [Issue:] 1 (79) [Publisher:] Romanian Academy, National Institute of Economic Research (INCE), "Victor Slăvescu" Centre for Financial and Monetary Research [Place:] Bucharest [Year:] 2018 [Pages:] 53-63
Publisher: 
Romanian Academy, National Institute of Economic Research (INCE), "Victor Slăvescu" Centre for Financial and Monetary Research, Bucharest
Abstract: 
We will study in this paper the relation between public investment, public debt and fiscal rules in the European Union countries. The strict fiscal rules imposed by EU have negatively affected the investments. The decline in public investment in European Union is related to the fiscal rules (mainly the deficit rule) included in the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP). There have been made several attempts to amend the SGP in such a way to grant a more flexible treatment to capital expenditure when fixing budgetary targets and ceilings. According to the golden rule of budget deficit, investments can be financed through loans, while current expenditure should be financed from taxes. The golden rule promotes thus intergenerational fairness and contributes to economic growth.
Subjects: 
fiscal rules
public debt
public deficit
Stability and Growth Pact
JEL: 
E62
H60
E60
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Document Type: 
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