Bunching at 3 Percent : The Maastricht Fiscal Criterion and Government Deficits /
This paper estimates the effects of the Maastricht treaty's fiscal criterion on EU countries' general government deficits. We combine treatment effects methods with bunching estimation, and find that the 3 percent deficit rule acts as a 'magnet', increasing the number of observat...
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| Natura: | Periodico |
| Lingua: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2018.
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| Serie: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 2018/182 |
| Accesso online: | Full text available on IMF |