Evaluating the dynamics of fiscal policy in Spain: patterns of interdependence and consistency of public expenditure and revenues

Francisco de Castro Fernández (), José M. González-Páramo and Pablo Hernández de Cos
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José M. González-Páramo: Universidad Complutense de Madrid

No 103, Working Papers from Banco de España

Abstract: Two issues are addressed in this paper. First, we attempt to ascertain whether the current fiscal policy in Spain satisfies the intertemporal borrowing constraint. For this purpose, we apply the traditional empirical tests of sustainability proposed in the literature, that pay special attention to integration orders of deficit and debt processes and the existence of cointegration relationships between revenues and expenditures. Under this approach, a sustainable fiscal policy would indicate that if fiscal variables follow the pattern of the past in the future, no problems in marketing public debt are expected to arise.

Keywords: fiscal policy; public debt; tests (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H24 H26 H6 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2001
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