Fiscal sustainability and the fiscal reaction function for South Africa /

How does the South African government react to changes in its debt position? In investigating the question, this paper estimates fiscal reaction functions using various methods (OLS, VAR, TAR, GMM, State-Space modelling and VECM). The paper finds that since 1946 the South African government has ran...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jooste, Charl
Other Authors: Burger, Philippe, Cuevas, Alfredo, Stuart, Ian
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2011.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2011/069
Online Access:Full text available on IMF