Stochastic Trends, Debt Sustainability and Fiscal Policy /

We study empirically the reaction of fiscal policy to changes in the permanent and transitory components of GDP in a panel of countries. We find evidence that government spending tends to be counter-cyclical conditional on temporary shocks and pro-cyclical conditional on permanent shocks. We also fi...

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Autor principal: Barhoumi, Karim
Outros Autores: Cherif, Reda, Rebei, Nooman
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2016.
Colecção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2016/059
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF