Natural-Resource Depletion, Habit Formation, and Sustainable Fiscal Policy : Lessons from Gabon /

While models based on Friedman's (1957) permanent-income hypothesis can provide oilproducing countries with long-run fiscal targets, they usually abstract from short-run costs associated with consolidation. This paper proposes a model that takes such adjustment costs (or "habits") int...

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Autor principal: Olters, Jan-Peter
Otros Autores: Leigh, Daniel
Formato: Revista
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006.
Colección:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/193
Acceso en línea:Full text available on IMF