Governments and Promised Fiscal Consolidations : Do They Mean What They Say? /

This paper analyses the causes and consequences of fiscal consolidation promise gaps, defined as the distance between planned fiscal adjustments and actual consolidations. Using 74 consolidation episodes derived from the narrative approach in 17 advanced economies during 1978 - 2015, the paper shows...

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Autor Principal: Gupta, Sanjeev
Outros autores: Jalles, Joao Tovar, Mulas-Granados, Carlos, Schena, Michela
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/039
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Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF