Convergence to EMU through the Test of the Public Finance –Romania’s Budgetary Deficit and Public Debt

Susanu, Monica (2009): Convergence to EMU through the Test of the Public Finance –Romania’s Budgetary Deficit and Public Debt. Published in: Volume de la 7e Conférence Internationale Intégrations économiques, concurrence et coopération, University Rijeka, Croaţia, Aprilie, 2009, ISBN 978-953-6148-82-0 (4 April 2009)

Abstract

The convergence criteria group together those macro variables whose dimensions mean to put in good use, to potentiate and to strengthen the major benefits of integration, as their configuration, either before and especially after the adhesion in EU, represents strict and compulsory requirements for each state. The very reason stands in the strategic target of adopting euro currency, as an advanced phase of the integration which thus brings together the negative integration – meaning the abolition of the various obstacles in common market functioning -, with the positive integration – that means that minimum action of the public authority mainly aimed to ensure the coordination and harmonization of the economic policies. Either budgetary deficit and public debt contain the quintessence of the convergence efforts in taking into account the public finance, since both indicators exhaustively mirror the government’s administration and interventionism, and reflect its practices and macroeconomic policies strategies. At the same time, they contain information and facilitate estimation and prognosis concerning not only that country’s estate and future, but the Union’s stability and future as well, since it represents an integrated system of many countries, a unitary whole of common goals and interests. The globalization is the outstanding economy’s characteristic either in present and future tense, which is a fact obviously confirmed by the propagated negative effects of the recent financial crises. The increasing importance of evaluating each country’s budgetary deficit and public debt, as much as each country is a part of a whole, is henceforth a reliable link for the member states of this great system. The globalization also favours the access and the extension of a multitude and various risks, which are able to penetrate through any split of any size. These public finance indicators are instruments enabled to operate as a primary and decisive court meant to signal and to preview the threatens against the system’s structure and stability, to prevent and remove these dangers, and also to heal long-term and bad effects.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: budgetary deficit, public debt, the convergence criteria
• Subjects: H - Public Economics > H6 - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt > H62 - Deficit ; Surplus; G - Financial Economics > G1 - General Financial Markets > G18 - Government Policy and Regulation; H - Public Economics > H6 - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt > H68 - Forecasts of Budgets, Deficits, and Debt; H - Public Economics > H6 - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt > H63 - Debt ; Debt Management ; Sovereign Debt

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