Financial Crises, Macroeconomic Shocks, and the Government Balance Sheet : A Panel Analysis /

Government financial assets are increasingly recognized as playing an important role in assessing fiscal sustainability. However, very little research has been done on the dynamics of government financial assets compared to liabilities. In this paper, we investigate the impact of recent financial cr...

Volledige beschrijving

Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteur: Ruzzante, Matteo
Formaat: Tijdschrift
Taal:English
Gepubliceerd in: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
Reeks:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/093
Online toegang:Full text available on IMF
LEADER 02180cas a2200241 a 4500
001 AALejournalIMF018421
008 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d
020 |c 5.00 USD 
020 |z 9781484352762 
022 |a 1018-5941 
040 |a BD-DhAAL  |c BD-DhAAL 
100 1 |a Ruzzante, Matteo. 
245 1 0 |a Financial Crises, Macroeconomic Shocks, and the Government Balance Sheet :   |b A Panel Analysis /  |c Matteo Ruzzante. 
264 1 |a Washington, D.C. :  |b International Monetary Fund,  |c 2018. 
300 |a 1 online resource (55 pages) 
490 1 |a IMF Working Papers 
500 |a <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required 
500 |a <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required 
506 |a Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students 
520 3 |a Government financial assets are increasingly recognized as playing an important role in assessing fiscal sustainability. However, very little research has been done on the dynamics of government financial assets compared to liabilities. In this paper, we investigate the impact of recent financial crises and macroeconomic shocks on government balance sheets, decomposing the separate effects on financial assets and liabilities. Using quarterly Government Finance Statistics (GFS) data, we analyze a panel of 27 countries over the period 1999Q1-2017Q1 through fixed effects and panel VAR techniques. Financial crises are shown to deteriorate the net financial worth of governments, but no significant impact is found on assets suggesting that they are not being used as fiscal buffers in bad times. On the contrary, countries that suffered both financial and banking crises experienced an 'artificial' increase of their asset position through bank bailouts. Macroeconomic shock analyses reveal that government balance sheet items are countercyclical, but important asymmetries are found in their dynamics. 
538 |a Mode of access: Internet 
830 0 |a IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;  |v No. 2018/093 
856 4 0 |z Full text available on IMF  |u http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2018/093/001.2018.issue-093-en.xml  |z IMF e-Library