Signaling Fiscal Regime Sustainability /

This paper proposes a signaling model that offers a new perspective on why governments deviate from optimal tax smoothing and delay debt stabilization. In our model, dependable-but not fully credible-governments have an incentive to tighten the fiscal regime when the signaling effect on credit ratin...

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Huvudupphovsman: Prati, Alessandro
Övriga upphovsmän: Drudi, Francesco
Materialtyp: Tidskrift
Språk:English
Publicerad: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1999.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1999/086
Länkar:Full text available on IMF