The global financial crisis, the EMU sovereign debt crisis and international financial regulation: lessons from a systematic literature review

S Meier, MR Gonzalez, F Kunze - International Review of Law and …, 2021 - Elsevier
To ensure the safety and soundness of the global financial system as well as individual
financial institutions and to reduce systemic risk, numerous policy measures and regulatory …

[HTML][HTML] Procyclicality of fiscal policy in European Union countries

B Gootjes, J de Haan - Journal of International Money and Finance, 2022 - Elsevier
Using real-time data, we examine whether fiscal policy has been counter-or procyclical in a
panel of 27 European Union (EU) member states over the period 2000–2015. We also …

Do fiscal rules matter? A survey of recent evidence

T Brändle, M Elsener - Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2024 - Springer
Fiscal rules are argued to be important for sound and sustainable fiscal policies and have
been increasingly adopted over the last 20 years. As increased fiscal pressure and fiscal …

Information asymmetry, leverage and firm value: Do crisis and growth matter?

S Fosu, A Danso, W Ahmad, W Coffie - International Review of Financial …, 2016 - Elsevier
Drawing on pecking order and agency cost theories, we assess the extent to which
information asymmetry is an important determinant of firm value and the extent to which this …

[HTML][HTML] Do fiscal rules need budget transparency to be effective?

B Gootjes, J De Haan - European Journal of political economy, 2022 - Elsevier
We examine whether fiscal rules' impact on fiscal performance depends on budget
transparency. Using panel data of 73 countries over the 2003–2013 period, we find that …

Do EU fiscal rules support or hinder counter-cyclical fiscal policy?

M Larch, E Orseau, W Van Der Wielen - Journal of International Money and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Rather than stabilising aggregate demand, discretionary fiscal policy tends to amplify
cyclical fluctuations of output. The commonly accepted reasons are political economy and …

Growth-friendly fiscal rules? Safeguarding public investment from budget cuts through fiscal rule design

M Ardanaz, E Cavallo, A Izquierdo, J Puig - Journal of International Money …, 2021 - Elsevier
We study patterns of public investment behavior during fiscal consolidations in seventy-five
advanced and emerging economies during 1990–2018 and find that results differ …

Flexible fiscal rules and countercyclical fiscal policy

M Guerguil, P Mandon, R Tapsoba - Journal of Macroeconomics, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper assesses the impact of different types of flexible fiscal rules on the procyclicality
of fiscal policy with propensity scores-matching techniques, thus mitigating traditional self …

Do fiscal rules constrain political budget cycles?

B Gootjes, J de Haan, R Jong-A-Pin - Public Choice, 2021 - Springer
We ask whether fiscal rules constrain incumbents from using fiscal policy tools for reelection
purposes. Using data on fiscal rules provided by the IMF for a sample of 77 (advanced and …

Promoting sustainable public finances in the European Union: The role of fiscal rules and government efficiency

UM Bergman, MM Hutchison, SEH Jensen - European Journal of Political …, 2016 - Elsevier
New indices of fiscal rule strength are constructed and, using a dynamic panel econometric
model for 27 EU countries over the period 1990–2012, we assess whether national fiscal …