THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, AND INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS ON BUDGET BALANCES OF THE HEAVILY INDEBTED EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, AND INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS ON BUDGET BALANCES OF THE HEAVILY INDEBTED EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

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The present study identifies socioeconomic, political, and institutional factors that shape extensive budget unbalances in four European Mediterranean countries (Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain), causing significant deficits and a public debt equal to (or above) 120% of their respective Gross Domestic alesmith tower of flower Product at the end of 2020.The regression analysis, run on official statistics, demonstrates that the dynamics of fiscal deficits in these countries are largely heterogeneous.This outcome suggests that the various factors and contexts considered here exert different effects in each country.Political factors played an tashi bharucha important role in Greece, being less important in Spain, and having a negligible role in both Italy and Portugal.On the contrary, institutional factors were recognized as particularly important in Greece, Italy, and Portugal.

Although important almost everywhere, the magnitude of the impact of economic factors also differed across the four countries.