Breaking the Impediments to Budgetary Reforms : : Evidence from Europe / / Ashoka Mody, Stefania Fabrizio

• Autore: Mody Ashoka
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (33 p.)
• Disciplina: 352.48
• Soggetto topico: Budget process - Europe; Budget deficits - Europe; Budgeting; Exports and Imports; Inflation; Macroeconomics; Public Finance; National Budget; Budget Systems; Fiscal Policy; Current Account Adjustment; Short-term Capital Movements; Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt; Price Level; Deflation; Budgeting & financial management; International economics; Public finance & taxation; Budget planning and preparation; Fiscal stance; Current account deficits; Government debt management; Budget; Fiscal policy; Balance of payments; Debts, Public; Prices
• Soggetto geografico: China, People's Republic of
• Altri autori: FabrizioStefania
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; I. Introduction; II. Data and Empirical Approach; III. The Setting: War of Attrition; IV. Economic Shocks and Crises; V. Credibility: Does It Take Nixon To Go To China?; VI. Conclusions; Appendices; I. Quality of Budget Institutions; Appendix Tables; 1. Construction of the Index: Fiscal Institutions and Their Index Parameters; 2. Index of Quality of Budget Institutions; 3. Fiscal Institutions' Quality Index; II. Definitions and Sources of Variables Used in Regression Analysis; Tables; 1. War of Attrition; 2. Political Constraints; 3. Economic Shocks; 4. Crises and Reforms ; 5. Credibility6. Model Predictions; Figures; 1. Average Value of Fiscal Institutions' Index, 1991-2004; 2. Quality of Fiscal Institutions' Index and Per Capita Income; 3. Fiscal Institutions' Index; 4. Interaction of Primary Balance and Fractionalization; 5. Nonlinear Effects in the Full Model; References
• Sommario/riassunto: Under what conditions are budget institutions likely to be strengthened? We find that fiscal deficits do not help in focusing policymakers on undertaking reforms. To the contrary, the larger the deficit, the lower is the likelihood of reforms. Large deficits apparently imply strong claims on the budget and, hence, generate unwillingness to impose self-discipline. As such, countries will tend to move either to small fiscal deficits and good institutions or large deficits and weak institutions. Economic shocks (if they are large enough) can help build a constituency for improving budget institutions. However, if forgiving markets accommodate economic shocks, even such pressure may be insufficient. Forwardlooking and credible leadership appears to be an important ingredient of the solution.
• Titolo autorizzato: Breaking the Impediments to Budgetary Reforms
• ISBN: 1-4623-9313-6; 1-4527-4101-8; 1-282-84043-6; 1-4518-6943-6; 9786612840432
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807489903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; ; No. 2008/082