Deficit Limits, Budget Rules, and Fiscal Policy /
The paper presents a simple model for discussing the effects of deficit limits and budget rules on fiscal policy. I find that limits on deficit-output ratios provide incentives to implement procyclical policies when the economy is in intermediate states, and countercyclical policies only in very &qu...
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| Format: | Journal |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2005.
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| Series: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 2005/120 |
| Online Access: | Full text available on IMF |