Lessons Learned from Tax vs. Expenditure Based Fiscal Consolidation in the European Transition Economies
dc.contributor.author | Mirdala, Rajmund | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-08-30T19:50:31Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-08-30T19:50:31Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-09-01 | |
dc.identifier.other | RePEc:wdi:papers:2013-1058 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/133077 | |
dc.description.abstract | European Union member countries are currently exposed to negative implications of the economic and debt crisis. Questions associated with disputable implications of fiscal incentives seem to be contrary to the crucial need of the effective fiscal consolidation that is necessary to reduce excessive fiscal deficits and high sovereign debts...In the paper we provide an overview of main trends in public budgets and sovereign debts in ten European transition economies during last two decades. We identify episodes of successful and unsuccessful (cold showers versus gradual) fiscal (expenditure versus revenue based) consolidations by analyzing effects of improvements in cyclically adjusted primary balance on the sovereign debt ratio reduction. We also estimate VAR model to analyze effects of fiscal shocks (based on one standard deviation in total expenditure, direct and indirect taxes) to real output. It is expected that responses of real output to different types of (consolidating) fiscal shocks may vary and thus provide more precise ideas about a feasibility (i.e. side effects on the macroeconomic performance) of expenditure versus revenue based fiscal consolidation episodes. Economic effects of fiscal consolidating adjustments are evaluated for two periods (pre-crisis and extended) to reveal crisis effects on fiscal consolidation efforts. | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | wp1058 | |
dc.subject | fiscal policy adjustments | |
dc.subject | fiscal consolidation | |
dc.subject | cyclically adjusted primary balance | |
dc.subject | government expenditures | |
dc.subject | tax revenues | |
dc.subject | unrestricted VAR | |
dc.subject | Cholesky decomposition | |
dc.subject | SVAR | |
dc.subject | structural shocks | |
dc.subject | impulse-response function | |
dc.subject.other | C32 | |
dc.subject.other | E62 | |
dc.subject.other | H20 | |
dc.subject.other | H50 | |
dc.subject.other | H60 | |
dc.title | Lessons Learned from Tax vs. Expenditure Based Fiscal Consolidation in the European Transition Economies | |
dc.type | Working Paper | |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Economics | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Business | |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | William Davidson Institute | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/133077/1/wp1058.pdf | |
dc.contributor.authoremail | rajmund.mirdala@tuke.sk | |
dc.owningcollname | William Davidson Institute (WDI) - Working Papers |
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