The Eurozone’s Evolving Fiscal Ecosystem: Mitigating Fiscal Discipline by Governing Through Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agencies
The Eurozone’s Evolving Fiscal Ecosystem: Mitigating Fiscal Discipline by Governing Through Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agencies
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欧元区不断演变的财政生态系统:通过表外财政机构治理缓解财政纪律
DOI:
10.1080/13563467.2021.1910648
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
4.2
通讯作者:
Steffen Murau
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文献类型:
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作者:
Guter-Sandu;Andrei;Steffen Murau
The original Maastricht regime designed the Eurozone’s fiscal segment in a way that sought to keep member states’ treasury budgets balanced by disciplining them through market forces, reducing the overall volume of public indebtedness, prohibiting monetary financing, and avoiding that Eurozone treasuries bail each other out. In this article, we analyse how these ‘neoliberal’ rules for fiscal governance have been gradually superseded by an alternative approach that we call ‘governing through off-balance-sheet fiscal agencies’ (OBFAs). OBFAs are special purpose vehicles that complement treasuries in supporting public investment, offering solvency insurance for banks, providing capital insurance of last resort for other treasuries, and expanding the stock of safe assets. By sponsoring OBFAs, treasuries can substitute ‘actual’ liabilities on their balance sheets, which are potentially in conflict with the EU’s neoliberal fiscal rules, with ‘contingent’ liabilities – guarantees that do not appear on-balance-sheet. Together, national and supra-national treasuries and OBFAs form a ‘fiscal ecosystem’ in which neoliberal fiscal rules get re-emphasised but in practice are increasingly mitigated. This new mode of Eurozone fiscal governance is reflected not only in multiple policies implemented since 2010 – the Recovery and Resilience Facility for example – but also represents the main strategy in many Eurozone reform proposals.
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影响因子:
1.7
作者:
O. Parker;R. Pye
通讯作者:
R. Pye
DOI:
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发表时间:
2009
期刊:
--
影响因子:
--
作者:
Piergiorgio Alessandri;A. Haldane;P. Doran;Marius Jurgilas;Samuel Knott;S. Ladha;Ouarda Merrouche;F. Sá;William Speller
通讯作者:
Piergiorgio Alessandri;A. Haldane;P. Doran;Marius Jurgilas;Samuel Knott;S. Ladha;Ouarda Merrouche;F. Sá;William Speller
影响因子:
1.9
作者:
S. Dutta;R. Kremers;Fabian Pape;Johannes Petry
通讯作者:
Johannes Petry
影响因子:
7.7
作者:
V. Schmidt
通讯作者:
V. Schmidt
DOI:
10.2307/j.ctt183p9vs
发表时间:
2010
期刊:
ERN: Other European Economics: Political Economy & Public Economics (Topic)
影响因子:
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作者:
Anastasia Nesvetailova
通讯作者:
Anastasia Nesvetailova