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What is Fiscal adjustment

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Handbook of Research on Social and Economic Development in the European Union
Reduction in the government primary budget deficit, obtained from a reduction in government expenditures, an increase in tax revenues, or both simultaneously.
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Are IMF Stabilization Programs in the European Union Disastrous?: From the Maastricht Treaty up to Recent Bailouts
Pantelis C. Kostis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1188-6.ch001
Abstract
This chapter examines the effectiveness of Stabilizing Programs in the European Union for the time period from the Maastricht Treaty in 1993 to 2013 (the recent bailouts of Greece, Ireland, and Portugal). A binary logistic model is used which specifies binomial as the distribution and logit as the link function, using an unbalanced panel of annual data. Two main conclusions emerge: a) the probabilities of an economic recession, a high debt to GDP ratio, and a high current account deficit to GDP ratio, are greater when a Stabilization Program is adopted than without one, and b) a Stabilization Program has a negative short-run effect on the GDP growth rate, as well as negative long-run effects (8 years after the adoption) on the debt to GDP ratio and the current account deficit to GDP ratio.
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