Do Fiscal Rules Cause Fiscal Discipline Over the Electoral Cycle? /

This paper estimates the causal effect of fiscal rules on political budget cycles in a sample of 67 developing countries over the period 1985-2007. We exploit the geographical pattern in the adoption of fiscal rules to isolate an exogenous source of variation in the adoption of national fiscal rules...

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1. Verfasser: Eklou, Kodjovi
Weitere Verfasser: Joanis, Marcelin
Format: Zeitschrift
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Schriftenreihe:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/291
Online Zugang:Full text available on IMF