What Sustains Fiscal Consolidations in Emerging Market Countries? /

This paper examines the factors affecting the persistence of fiscal consolidation in 25 emerging market countries during 1980-2001. It proposes a new approach for defining spells of fiscal consolidation. The results indicate that the probability of ending a fiscal adjustment is affected by the legac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clements, Benedict
Other Authors: Baldacci, Emanuele, Gupta, Sanjeev, Tiongson, Erwin
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2003/224
Online Access:Full text available on IMF