Fiscal Sustainability in EMU contries: A continued Fiscal commitment?

Jordi Paniagua (jordi.paniagua@uv.es), Juan Sapena and Cecilio Tamarit
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Juan Sapena: Catholic University of Valencia, Faculty of Economics and Business. 34 Calle Corona, Valencia, Spain

No 1608, Working Papers from Department of Applied Economics II, Universidad de Valencia

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to study the sustainability of public finances in the Eurozone particularly after the 2007 financial crisis. This paper goes beyond the standard analysis of the univariate properties of the fiscal variables with multiple structural breaks by estimating a time-varying scal reaction function on a 11-country panel for a period spanning from 1970 to 2014. Even if panel unit root or stationary tests can provid a rough first insight on the sustainability of the public finances, they fail to highlight the adjusting mechanisms to debt overhang in recent years. The main advantage of our empirical approach is that it clearly captures governments' dynamic response to debt accumulation, which signals its commitment to readjust public debt towards a sustainable path. Time-varying estimates of the fiscal reaction function sheds new light on this respect and reveal certain heterogeneity among EMU countries on the way they manage their public finances. This paper helps ascertain whether the public resources destined to bail out troubled countries triggered efective fiscal responses.

Keywords: Fiscal sustainability; panel unit root tests; multiple structural breaks; fiscal reaction function; Kalman filter; time-varying parameters (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 E62 H62 H63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-12
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