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The Stability and Growth Pact: Crisis and Reform [PDF]
The sovereign debt crisis in the euro area is a symptom of policy failures and deficiencies in – among other things – fiscal policy coordination. The first nine years of the euro were not used effectively in order to improve public finances, while the Stability and Growth Pact was watered down.
Ludger Schuknecht +3 more
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The application of the European Union fiscal rules in the COVID-19 pandemic crisis [PDF]
The paper examines the application of the European Union fiscal rules in the conditions of disturbances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Faced with a severe economic crisis, the European Union (EU) institutions for the first time activated a "general ...
Golubović Srđan
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Stability and Growth Pact: Too Young to Die, Too Old to Rock ‘n’ Roll
This paper discusses the future of the Stability and Growth Pact (hereafter SGP). Although Neoclassical economic models argue that strict fiscal and monetary rules minimize moral hazard and crowding out, in practice many governments adopt fiscal ...
Patroklos Patsoulis +2 more
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Steps towards a European Fiscal Union: Has the revised Stability and Growth Pact delivered so far?
Since 2008-09, the European Union (EU) experienced two major economic crises revealing all the flaws of the existing model of economic governance. By leaving the majority of the countries with high levels of deficit and public debt, the two crises have ...
Marin Mileusnic
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Measuring fiscal guidance transparency
The public disclosure of medium-term fiscal plans - “fiscal guidance” - represents an increasingly important, yet understudied element of fiscal transparency frameworks.
Claudio Columbano
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The Euro Area Periphery Debt Conundrum
There are many reasons to reform the Stability and Growth Pact, but that reform is no panacea. This is because the euro area periphery has increasingly entered a debt conundrum.
Robin Brooks, Jonathan Pingle
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The Stability and Growth Pact in Need of Reform [PDF]
The failure of an increasing number of countries to comply with the rules of the Stabilityand Growth Pact has given fresh impetus to the debate on the appropriateness of the Pact in its present form. This Forum deals with the deficiencies of the present design of the Pact and with possible ways of improving it, including the pertinent proposals by the ...
Boonstra, Wim +3 more
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On a Reformed Stability and Growth Pact [PDF]
In March 2005, the Council of Economics and Finance Ministers (Ecofin) presented its own suggestions for a possible Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) reform in a Report to the European Council. The Council Report divides its proposals into three parts, namely improving governance, strengthening the preventive arm and improving the implementation of the ...
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Stability and Growth Pact – critical analysis and perspectives of the future development
This working paper seeks to define perspectives of the functioning of the Stability and Growth Pact as a tool for regulation of national fiscal policies through analysis and description of legal acts regarding the Pact and through analysis and ...
Robert Plaga, Hubert Smekal
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Fiscal aspects of the European monetary integration [PDF]
Along with the introduction of the euro as a single currency, importance of respecting the fiscal aspects which determine longevity of the monetary arrangement is recognized.
Golubović Srđan
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