In many cases, the dire situation of public finances calls into question the very soundness of sovereigns and prompts corrective actions with far-reaching consequences. In this context, European authorities responded with several measures on different fronts, for instance by passing the "Fiscal Compact", which entered into force on January 1, 2013. Of critical importance in this framework is the assessment of a country’s situation by way of statistical measures, in order to take corrective actions when called for according to the letter of the law. If these statistics are not correct, there is a risk of imposing draconian measures on countries that do not really need it
The eurozone crisis has involved sharp output declines and has generated much discussion about the a...
The European sovereign debt crisis continues to hold Europe and the world captive. Will the euro and...
This brief contribution outlines some of the puzzling constitutional aspects of the Treaty on Stabil...
In 2012, 22 EU countries signed the Fiscal Compact, an intergovernmental agreement aimed at backing ...
The sovereign debt crisis in the euro area has shown that sovereign default risk can be a serious is...
Talking about the economic crisis in Europe, the so called ‘European sovereign debt crisis’ (also re...
The Statistical Office of the European Commission, Eurostat, at the beginning of February 2015, rele...
In the European Union, the creation of public debt statistics starts with member state governments’ ...
<div> <div> <div> <p>Elected governments have incentives to stretch accounting rules. Doing so impro...
In response to the Eurozone crisis, European Union leaders have undertaken a number of dramatic refo...
A key element of economic governance in the European Union, the Stability and Growth Pact (Pact), un...
Budget stability seems to be mainly regulated through hard law, but in order to measure public debt,...
Budget stability seems to be mainly regulated through hard law, but in order to measure public debt,...
This study aims in analysing the fiscal sustainability for the case of European countries most affec...
<p>Some EU members faced years of crisis in the first half of the 2010s with an excessive initial pu...
The eurozone crisis has involved sharp output declines and has generated much discussion about the a...
The European sovereign debt crisis continues to hold Europe and the world captive. Will the euro and...
This brief contribution outlines some of the puzzling constitutional aspects of the Treaty on Stabil...
In 2012, 22 EU countries signed the Fiscal Compact, an intergovernmental agreement aimed at backing ...
The sovereign debt crisis in the euro area has shown that sovereign default risk can be a serious is...
Talking about the economic crisis in Europe, the so called ‘European sovereign debt crisis’ (also re...
The Statistical Office of the European Commission, Eurostat, at the beginning of February 2015, rele...
In the European Union, the creation of public debt statistics starts with member state governments’ ...
<div> <div> <div> <p>Elected governments have incentives to stretch accounting rules. Doing so impro...
In response to the Eurozone crisis, European Union leaders have undertaken a number of dramatic refo...
A key element of economic governance in the European Union, the Stability and Growth Pact (Pact), un...
Budget stability seems to be mainly regulated through hard law, but in order to measure public debt,...
Budget stability seems to be mainly regulated through hard law, but in order to measure public debt,...
This study aims in analysing the fiscal sustainability for the case of European countries most affec...
<p>Some EU members faced years of crisis in the first half of the 2010s with an excessive initial pu...
The eurozone crisis has involved sharp output declines and has generated much discussion about the a...
The European sovereign debt crisis continues to hold Europe and the world captive. Will the euro and...
This brief contribution outlines some of the puzzling constitutional aspects of the Treaty on Stabil...