Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/26271 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2226
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We assess the sustainability of public finances in the EU15 using stationarity and cointegration analysis. Specifically, we use panel unit root tests of the first and second generation allowing in some cases for structural breaks. We also apply modern panel cointegration techniques developed by Pedroni (1999, 2004), generalized by Banerjee and Carrion-i-Silvestre (2006) and Westerlund and Edgerton (2007), to a structural long-run equation between general government expenditures and revenues. While sustainability may be lacking in individual cases, fiscal policy was overall sustainable both for the EU15 panel set, and within some sub-periods.
Subjects: 
intertemporal budget constraint
fiscal sustainability
EU
panel unit root
panel cointegration
JEL: 
C23
E62
H62
H63
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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