Fiscal Sustainability: Does EU Membership Change Policy Behavior? Empirical Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe

This paper studies fiscal policy behavior with regard to sustainability for the group of the eight eastern new member states which joined the European Union in 2004. Using the approach of Bohn (1995, 998) the fiscal reaction function is estimated for the years 1996 until 2013. Further, separating th...

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Main Author: Bettina Bökemeier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università Carlo Cattaneo LIUC 2017-12-01
Series:The European Journal of Comparative Economics
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Online Access:http://ejce.liuc.it/18242979201702/182429792017140202.pdf