Fiscal Policies in High Debt Euro-Area Countries

• Main Authors: Cavallo, Antonella (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Dallari, Pietro (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Ribba, Antonio (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Macroeconomics.; Finance, Public.; Public finance.; Europe-Economic conditions.; European Economic Community literature.; Econometrics.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.; Public Finance.; Public Economics.; European Economics.; European Integration.

This book explores the role of national fiscal policies in a selected group of Euro-area countries under the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). In particular, the authors characterize the response of output to fiscal consolidations and expansions in the small Euro-area open economies affect...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Common Framework for National Fiscal Policies and the Euro Area Fiscal Union
• 3 The Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Policy Shocks: A Review of the Literature
• 4 The Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Shocks in High Debt Euro Area Countries
• 5 A Further Look To Macroeconomic Outcomes of Fiscal Austerity in High Debt Countries
• 6 Can (And Should) Germany Do It? Spillovers of German Fiscal Policies in the Euro Area
• 7 The labor market outcomes of austerity. Evidence for Europe.