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Assessing Long-Term Fiscal Developments: a New Approach

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António Afonso () (European Central Bank and ISEG/TULisbon)
Luca Agnello () (University of Palermo)
Davide Furceri () (OECD and University of Palermo)
Ricardo M. Sousa () (Universidade do Minho - NIPE)

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We use a new approach to assess long-term fiscal developments. By analyzing the time-varying behaviour of the two components of government spending and revenue – responsiveness and persistence – we are able to infer about the sources of fiscal behaviour. Drawing on quarterly data we estimate recursively these components within a system of government revenue and spending equations using a Three-Stage Least Square method. In this way we track fiscal developments, i.e. possible fiscal deteriorations and/or improvements for eight European Union countries plus the US. Results suggest that positions have not significantly changed for Finland, France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and the US, whilst they have improved for Belgium, Italy, and the Netherlands.

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Keywords: Fiscal Deterioration; Fiscal Sustainability.;

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E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy
H50 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - General

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