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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814668103321

Autore

Mody Ashoka

Titolo

Can Budget Institutions Counteract Political Indiscipline? / / Ashoka Mody, Stefania Fabrizio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-9622-4

1-4527-0575-5

1-282-44793-9

1-4519-8725-0

9786613821133

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (53 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

FabrizioStefania

Soggetti

Budget - European Union countries - Econometric models

Fiscal policy - European Union countries - Econometric models

Elections - Economic aspects - European Union countries

Budgeting

Labor

Macroeconomics

Public Finance

Analysis of Collective Decision-Making: General

Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook: General

National Budget, Deficit, and Debt: General

National Budget

Budget Systems

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General

Fiscal Policy

Debt

Debt Management

Sovereign Debt

Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

Budgeting & financial management

Public finance & taxation

Labour

income economics

Budget planning and preparation

Expenditure

Fiscal stance



Public debt

Unemployment rate

Public financial management (PFM)

Fiscal policy

Budget

Expenditures, Public

Debts, Public

Unemployment

Poland, Republic of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"May 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. THE DETERMINANTS OF FISCAL PERFORMANCE: A SELECTIVE LITERATURE REVIEW""; ""III. BUDGET INSTITUTIONS IN NEW AND POTENTIAL EU MEMBER STATES""; ""IV. BENCHMARK RESULTS""; ""V. THE ROLE OF DEEPER DETERMINANTS: TIME-INVARIANT FACTORS""; ""VI. DIFFERENTIATING THE EFFECTS ON EXPENDITURES AND REVENUES""; ""VII. CONCLUSIONS""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

The budget is an expression of political rather than economic priorities. We confirm this proposition for a group of new and potential members of the European Union, finding that politics dominates. The contemporary practice of democracy can increase budget deficits through not only ideological preferences but also more fragmented government coalitions and higher voter participation. Long-term structural forces, triggered by societal divisions and representative electoral rules, have more ambiguous implications but also appear to increase budget pressures, as others have also found. However, our most robust, and hopeful, finding is that budget institutions-mechanisms and rules of the budget process-that create checks and balances have significant value even when the politics is representative but undisciplined, and when long-term structural forces are unfavorable.