Elena-Simina T¿n¿sescu is Professor of Law at the University of Bucharest, Romania.

Eric Oliva is Professor of Public Finance at Aix-Marseille Université, France.

Introduction - Balanced budget rule and/in the Law

Eric Oliva, Elena-Simina Tanasescu

Part I: Balanced Budget as Normative and Economic Standard

Chapter 1: Balanced budget as a substantive legal rule

• Gilbert Orsoni

Chapter 2: On the economic concept of a balanced budget

• Thomas Stauffer

Part II: Balanced Budget as Constitutional Rule

Chapter 3: The German Debt Brake

• Ralph Schenke

Chapter 4: The Constitutional stakes of the "golden rule"

• Marc Verdussen

Part III: Balanced Budget and Separation of Powers

Chapter 5: Balanced budget rule and representative democracy

• Giulia Aravatinou Leonidi

Chapter 6: The Financial Local Autonomy - A Tale of Balanced Budgets and Vertical Separation of Financial Power

• Simona Gherghina

Chapter 7: Balanced budget rule and the transversality of agencies

• Bogdan Iancu

Part IV: Balanced Budget, Governance and Fundamental Rights

Chapter 8: Balanced budget rule and social rights

• George Katrougalos, Daphne Akoumaniaki

Chapter 9: The organizational foundations the IMF's doctrinal turn on fiscal policy after the Great Recession

• Cornel Ban

Final remarks - Balanced Budgets: the Vanity of a Principle

Michel Bouvier