Independent Fiscal Councils : Recent Trends and Performance /

Countries increasingly rely on independent fiscal councils to constrain policymakers' discretion and curb the bias towards excessive deficits and pro-cyclical policies. Since fiscal councils are often recent and heterogeneous across countries, assessing their impact is challenging. Using the la...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beetsma, Roel
Other Authors: Debrun, Xavier, Fang, Xiangming, Kim, Young
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/068
Online Access:Full text available on IMF