Putting Structural Budget Balances on Reliable Footing

Abstract The design of future fiscal rules is currently being debated in Germany and the EU. A recurring point is the calculation of the structural budget balance. In the following, we present five criteria that should be fulfilled by structural budget balances. Moreover, we analyse the expost revis...

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Main Authors: Marcell Göttert, Timo Wollmershäuser
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Language:deu
Published: Sciendo 2022-02-01
Series:Wirtschaftsdienst
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10273-022-3114-7
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description Abstract The design of future fiscal rules is currently being debated in Germany and the EU. A recurring point is the calculation of the structural budget balance. In the following, we present five criteria that should be fulfilled by structural budget balances. Moreover, we analyse the expost revisions of the existing production function approach and present a surveybased method that mitigates revision problems.
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spelling doaj-art-c992622e4fd449c8bfd49c99fe3dfbf22025-02-02T00:31:51ZdeuSciendoWirtschaftsdienst0043-62751613-978X2022-02-01102210811310.1007/s10273-022-3114-7Putting Structural Budget Balances on Reliable FootingMarcell Göttert0Timo Wollmershäuser1Agenda Austria ∣ Denkfabrikifo Zentrum für Makroökonomik und Befragungen, ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität Muenchen e.V.Abstract The design of future fiscal rules is currently being debated in Germany and the EU. A recurring point is the calculation of the structural budget balance. In the following, we present five criteria that should be fulfilled by structural budget balances. Moreover, we analyse the expost revisions of the existing production function approach and present a surveybased method that mitigates revision problems.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10273-022-3114-7
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