When you're knee-deep in the day-to-day details of running a business down on Main Street, it's easy to tune out the endless arguments about the economy taking place in Washington, D.C. That can be a ...

This supplement presents case studies of seven fiscal councils and examines how each council performs its core functions and if and how it impacts on the fiscal policy debate. The seven fiscal ...

Being a budget director, or the head of a macro-fiscal unit (MFU) of a ministry of finance, is a demanding job. So, it was an impressive combination of logistical ingenuity and good timing that ...

The stance of fiscal policy in CEMAC and WAEMU is strongly influenced by fiscal effort in the previous period. This persistence underscores the risks of a procyclical fiscal policy stance, given these ...

Niels Thygesen, chairman of the European Fiscal Board, said that more "economic judgment" should be part of the activation of the new stabilisation function. [[ZEW/Flickr]] The European Fiscal Board ...