Government Solvency: Revisiting some EMU Countries

Michael Arghyrou and Kul Luintel ()

Public Policy Discussion Papers from Economics and Finance Section, School of Social Sciences, Brunel University

Abstract: Corsetti and Roubini (1991) reported that the government finances of Greece, Ireland, Italy and the Netherlands did not satisfy the intertemporal budget constraint (IBC). We re-examine this issue by utilizing a new empirical approach and extended data set. Structural shifts, an issue which Corsetti and Roubini were unable to address due to the lack of suitable econometric methods, are tackled. We show that: (i) government finances of all four countries satisfy the IBC and this finding is robust to different time horizons; (ii) multiple structural shifts, most of which correspond to important policy changes, did occur in the fiscal path of these countries; and (iii) the overall effect of structural shifts has been to strengthen the evidence supporting IBC. We also find a clear positive Maastricht effect on IBC.

Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2002-02
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Journal Article: Government solvency: Revisiting some EMU countries (2007)
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