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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Autore principale: Jooste, Charl
Altri autori: Burger, Philippe, Cuevas, Alfredo, Stuart, Ian
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2011.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2011/069
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF
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