Do Fiscal Rules Cause Fiscal Discipline Over the Electoral Cycle? /

This paper estimates the causal effect of fiscal rules on political budget cycles in a sample of 67 developing countries over the period 1985-2007. We exploit the geographical pattern in the adoption of fiscal rules to isolate an exogenous source of variation in the adoption of national fiscal rules...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eklou, Kodjovi
Other Authors: Joanis, Marcelin
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/291
Online Access:Full text available on IMF