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Spanish Public Debt Sustainability Analysis

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  • Carlos Cuerpo

    (Autoridad Independiente de Responsabilidad Fiscal)

  • José Miguel Ramos

    (Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad)

Abstract

This note develops an overarching debt sustainability analysis (DSA) framework, encompassing three of its main dimensions: (i) a traditional (deterministic) sustainability exercise, based on a simple accounting application involving the debt accumulation equation; (ii) an assessment of the realism of the assumptions underlying the deterministic debt projections; and (iii) a stochastic exercise aimed at understanding the uncertainty associated with the deterministic path. This framework is applied to the Spanish case, constructing and dissecting the baseline debt path associated with the official macro and fiscal projections. While Spanish public debt appears largely sustainable along this baseline, its realization seems optimistic in the light of historical experience.

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  • Carlos Cuerpo & José Miguel Ramos, 2015. "Spanish Public Debt Sustainability Analysis," Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, IEF, vol. 215(4), pages 95-118, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:hpe:journl:y:2015:v:215:i:4:p:95-118
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    Keywords

    Public debt sustainability analysis; general government sector; fiscal reaction function; bootstrapping; vector autoregressive models;
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    JEL classification:

    • E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
    • H68 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Forecasts of Budgets, Deficits, and Debt

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