Should we Care for Structural Breaks When Assessing Fiscal Sustainability?

Antonio Afonso and Christophe Rault

No 2008/01, Working Papers Department of Economics from ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Universidade de Lisboa

Abstract: We apply recent panel cointegration methods to a structural equation between government expenditure and revenue. Allowing for multiple endogenous breaks and after computing appropriate bootstrap critical values, we conclude for fiscal sustainability in the overall EU15 panel.

Keywords: fiscal sustainability; EU; panel cointegration. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 E62 H62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-01
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