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Determinants of Budget Deficit in Nigeria
Journal of International Business, Economics and Entrepreneurship, 2021 This paper investigates the factors governing the determination of budget deficit in Nigeria from 1981q1 through 2016q4. Our methodology is based on Johansen cointegration and Vector Error Correction model (VECM) approach.
Maimuna M. Shehu, Ibrahim M. Adamu
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The asymmetric effect of fiscal deficits on macroeconomic stability in Nigeria: evidence from nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) [PDF]
International Trade, Politics and DevelopmentPurpose – The paper examines the asymmetric effects of fiscal deficits on selected macroeconomic variables in Nigeria, which include economic growth, exchange rates and inflation. The existing works of literature are premised on symmetry assumptions with
Adebayo Adedokun +2 more
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Deviations between Government Debt and Changes in Government Deficit, Why They Tend to Persist [PDF]
Statistika: Statistics and Economy Journal, 2022 Government deficit and debt represent one of the most prominent statistical aggregates playing a major role in the fiscal surveillance and in the assessment of fiscal sustainability.
Václav Rybáček
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Economic, political and institutional determinants of fiscal deficit [PDF]
Zbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2017 This paper seeks basic economic and political causes of instability and rising fiscal deficit. Economic factors that may cause the appearance and increase in the fiscal deficit are: growth of current public spending, launching public investments, tax ...
Vuković Marija R.
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Fiscal Rules and Effective Fiscal Policy
Comparative Economic Research, 2012 This article examines and assesses the influence of political factors on the effectiveness of pursuing fiscal policy. These factors usually cause and maintain a high budget deficit and public debt.
Joanna Działo
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Commitment, Deficit Ceiling, and Fiscal Privilege [PDF]
FinanzArchiv, 2014 This study analyzes how commitment to a deficit ceiling can affect private agents political efforts, as well as overall welfare, in a hard- and a soft-budget regime, using a two-period model simulating a present and a future generation and a government. In the hard-budget regime, the government imposes the deficit ceiling before the present generations
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Expansionary Fiscal Shocks and the Trade Deficit [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005 In this paper, we use an open economy DGE model (SIGMA) to assess the quantitative effects of fiscal shocks on the trade balance in the United States. We examine the effects of two alternative fiscal shocks: a rise in government consumption, and a reduction in the labor income tax rate.
Christopher J. Erceg +2 more
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Political business cycle and fiscal discipline in Sub-Saharan Africa
European Journal of Government and Economics, 2021 We tested the Political Business Cycle theory in Sub-Sahara Africa. To provide an empirical explanation for this nexus, this paper used unbalanced panel data from thirty-six (36) Sub-Saharan African countries between 1990 and 2018. The system Generalized
Funsho Obakemi +3 more
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Examining the Twin Deficit Hypothesis: Evidence From Selected SADC Countries
Journal of Management and Research, 2015 This paper investigates the existence of a causal relationship between fiscal balance and current account balance over the period 1980-2011, for nine SADC countries individually.
REGINALD CHAONEKA
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Fiscal deficits and growth in developing countries [PDF]
Journal of Public Economics, 2005 This paper examines the relation between fiscal deficits and growth for a panel of 45 developing countries. Based on a consistent treatment of the government budget constraint, it finds evidence of a threshold effect at a level of the deficit around 1.5% of GDP.
Adam, C, Bevan, D
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