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The Macro Impact of the Portuguese Constitutional Court Decisions Regarding the Budgetary Proposals of the Portuguese Budget Law (2012, 2013, 2014)

ISEG-UL Economics Department Working Paper No. 06/2015/DE/UECECEMAPRE

15 Pages Posted: 14 Mar 2015

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António Afonso

University of Lisbon - ISEG (School of Economics and Management); UECE (Research Unit on Complexity and Economics); ISEG Lisbon School of Economics and Management,Universidade de Lisboa; REM - Research in Economics and Mathematics

Jorge Caiado

Technical University of Lisbon (UTL) - Centre for Applied Mathematics and Economics (CEMAPRE)

Miguel St. Aubyn

Technical University of Lisbon - ISEG (School of Economics and Management); UECE (Research Unit on Complexity and Economics)

Date Written: March 12, 2015

Abstract

We review the main budgetary measures not accepted by the Portuguese Constitutional Court in the Budget Laws of 2012, 2013 and 2014. Considering the feedback effect of the fiscal impulse, the impact on the budget balance is -0.42% and of -0.34% of GDP respectively for 2013 and for 2014; in both years the impact of the fiscal expansion could result in rather mitigated reductions in the unemployment rate in the range of 0.1 percent; the impact on the government debt level is around 0.42% of GDP in 2013, declining from then on, in a conservative estimate, and about 2.95% of GDP in 2020 in the worst case scenario.

Keywords: budget balance, fiscal consolidation, debt-to-GDP ratio, Portugal

JEL Classification: E62, E65, H62

Suggested Citation

Afonso, António and Caiado, Jorge and St. Aubyn, Miguel, The Macro Impact of the Portuguese Constitutional Court Decisions Regarding the Budgetary Proposals of the Portuguese Budget Law (2012, 2013, 2014) (March 12, 2015). ISEG-UL Economics Department Working Paper No. 06/2015/DE/UECECEMAPRE, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2577324 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2577324

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Jorge Caiado

Technical University of Lisbon (UTL) - Centre for Applied Mathematics and Economics (CEMAPRE) ( email )

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Lisboa, 1200
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Miguel St. Aubyn

Technical University of Lisbon - ISEG (School of Economics and Management) ( email )

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1200-071 Lisboa
Portugal
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