Fiscal Discipline in WAEMU : Rules, Institutions, and Markets /

This paper gauges the scope for market discipline and the effectiveness of the regional surveillance framework in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). The paper finds that the responsiveness of sovereign bond rates to governments' fiscal behavior in the regional financial marke...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hitaj, Ermal
Other Authors: Kursat Onder, Yasin
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2013.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2013/216
Online Access:Full text available on IMF