Austerity, Fiscal Uncertainty, and Economic Growth: Insights from Fiscally Weak EU Countries
In: SAFE Working Paper No. 56
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In: SAFE Working Paper No. 56
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This paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the relationship between austerity measures and economic growth. We propose a general equilibrium model where (i) agents have recursive preferences; (ii) economic growth is endogenously driven by investments in R&D; (iii) the government is committed to a zero-deficit policy and finances public expenditures by means of a combination of labor taxes and R&D taxes. We find that austerity measures that rely on reducing resources available to the R&D sector depress economic growth both in the short- and long-run. High debt EU members are currently implementing austerity measures based on higher taxes and/or lower investments in the R&D sector. This casts some doubts on the real ability of these countries to grow over the next years.
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In: SAFE Working Paper No. 34
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In: ECB Occasional Paper No. 2021/271
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