01886cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF011168 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781462314324 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Erbil, Nese. Is Fiscal Policy Procyclical in Developing Oil-Producing Countries? / Nese Erbil. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2011. 1 online resource (32 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper examines the cyclicality of fiscal behavior in 28 developing oil-producing countries (OPCs) during 1990-2009. After testing five fiscal measures - government expenditure, consumption, investment, non-oil revenue, and non-oil primary balance - and correcting for reverse causality between non-oil output and fiscal variables, the results suggest that all of the five fiscal variables are strongly procyclical in the full sample. Also, the results are not uniform across income groups: expenditure is procyclical in the low and middle-income countries, while it is countercyclical in the high-income countries. Fiscal policy tends to be affected by the external financing constraints in the middle- and high-income groups. However, the quality of institutions and political structure appear to be more significant for the low-income group. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2011/171 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2011/171/001.2011.issue-171-en.xml IMF e-Library