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Record Nr.

UNINA9910766000203321

Titolo

Budgetary policy modelling : public expenditures / / edited by Pantelis Capros and Daniele Meulders

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997

©1997

ISBN

1-134-76604-1

1-134-76605-X

1-280-24210-8

9786610242108

0-203-97937-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Routledge new international studies in economic modelling

Disciplina

350.72/221/094

Soggetti

Budget - European Union countries - Econometric models

Government spending policy - European Union countries - Econometric models

European Union countries Appropriations and expenditures Econometric models Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers originally presented at the Applied Econometrics Association (AEA) Conference on public budget modelling in Athens, April 1993.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; FIGURES; TABLES; CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; 1 PUBLIC EXPENDITURES, TAXES, DEBT AND ENDOGENOUS GROWTH; 2 ENDOGENOUS GROWTH AND BUDGETARY POLICY IN THE OPEN ECONOMY; 3 PROPOSALS FOR COMMUNITY STABILIZATION MECHANISMS; 4 SOME STOCHASTIC IMPLICATIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT'S BUDGET CONSTRAINT; 5 CREDIT CONSTRAINTS AND THE EFFICIENCY OF BUDGETARY POLICY; 6 STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT AND PUBLIC DEFICIT; 7 PUBLIC DEFICITS AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION; 8 PUBLIC SPENDING IN FEDERAL STATES; 9 CAUSALITY BETWEEN PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION; 10 ON THE EFFICACY, EFFICIENCY AND EQUITY OF STATE SUPPORT IN BRITAIN; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The focus of this volume is on the European context of public budget



policy and a variety of different approaches are used - theoretical modelling, econometrics and applied general equilibrium modelling. Empirical evidence and case studies of European countries are contained in all the papers. The papers cover the four general themes of public budget policy: * economic stabilization, in view of the Economic and Monetary Union in the European Community * reinforcing structural change, involved in market liberalization and harmonization of economic structures * its distributional