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Fiscal Sustainability in the Presence of Systemic Banks: The Case of EU Countries

Agnès Benassy-Quere and Guillaume Roussellet

No 3975, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: We provide a first attempt to include off-balance sheet, implicit insurance to SIFIs into a consistent assessment of fiscal sustainability, for 27 countries of the European Union. We first calculate tax gaps à la Blanchard (1990) and Blanchard et al. (1990). We then introduce two alternative measures of implicit off-balance sheet liabilities related to the risk of a systemic bank crisis. The first one relies of microeconomic data at the bank level. The second one relies on econometric estimations of the probability and the cost of a systemic banking crisis, based on historical data. The former approach provides an upper evaluation of the fiscal cost of systemic banking crises, whereas the latter one provides a lower one. Hence we believe that the combined use of these two methodologies helps to gauge the range of fiscal risk.

Keywords: fiscal sustainability; tax gap; systemic banking risk; off-balance sheet liabilities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H12 H63 H81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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