Fiscal Consolidation in Europe: Pre- and Post-Maastricht

Kiel Working Paper No. 1028

28 Pages Posted: 6 Jul 2005

Date Written: February 2001

Abstract

Based on a panel data model this paper investigates whether the effects of fiscal policy on national saving in Europe have changed after the Maastricht Treaty came into force. Recently Giavazzi, Jappelli and Pagano (2000) found evidence that national saving responds nonlinearly to fiscal policy when a large and persistent consolidation is undertaken. I show that their finding is not robust, one reason being that the structural budget deficit is not a time-invariant criterion for identifying episodes of large and persistent fiscal impulses. This paper proposes and analyses an alternative definition of a fiscal consolidation episode: the post-Maastricht period.

Keywords: Fiscal policy, national saving, budgetary consolidation, European Union, panel

JEL Classification: E6, H2, H3, H5, H6

Suggested Citation

Kamps, Christophe, Fiscal Consolidation in Europe: Pre- and Post-Maastricht (February 2001). Kiel Working Paper No. 1028, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=753008 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.753008

Christophe Kamps (Contact Author)

European Central Bank (ECB) ( email )

Sonnemannstrasse 20
D-60314 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

HOME PAGE: http://https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/research/authors/profiles/christophe-kamps.en.html

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