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Optimal Fiscal Rules

open access: greenSSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
This paper studies the welfare effect of restrictions imposed on government debt and deficit. The analysis is conducted in a sovereign default framework with endogenous default decisions. In addition to the conventional exponential discounting preferences the paper also studies a specification, in which agents have self-control problems.
David Gomtsyan
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Committed to flexible fiscal rules

Journal of Monetary Economics, 2023
We study the impact of fiscal rules on macroeconomic performance following natural disaster shocks, using dynamic panel models and quarterly data for 89 countries. We find that countries with fiscal rules perform significantly better in the aftermath of such shocks than countries without rules.
Christoph Grosse-Steffen   +2 more
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Fiscal Rules in India: are they Effective? [PDF]

open access: possible, 2012
AbstractThis article considers India's experience with fiscal (responsibility) rules during the past decade. The article first provides an analytical foundation on how to think about debt sustainability in the Indian context. It argues that the fiscal space “vacated” in recent years by states has been usurped by the central government.
Buiter, Willem H., Patel, Urjit R.
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The Economic Consequences of Fiscal Rules

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023
Fiscal rules are controversial. They mitigate politicians' flexibility in responding to shocks and pursuing expansionary fiscal policy. They help, however, to handle politicians' commitment problem in fiscal policies. I portray the new and fast growing empirical literature in public economics that examines the economic consequences of fiscal rules. The
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Fiscal Rules, Fiscal Institutions, and Fiscal Performance [PDF]

open access: possibleEconomic and Social Review, 2002
Public spending is a story of some people spending other people?s money. In modern democracies, voters elect politicians to make decisions about public spending for them, and they provide the funds by paying taxes. Two aspects of this story are worrying and have received considerable academic interest in recent years.
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The Quest for Fiscal Rules

2018
James Buchanan pioneered the political economics of public debt 60 years ago. In this paper, we contrast his thinking of the burden of debt, the public choice mechanisms that lead to excessive debt and the demand for constitutional restraints on public debt with its development, its sustainability, the evidence on the political economy of debt and on ...
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Monetary Policy and Fiscal Rules

The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2004
This paper presents a Dynamic New Keynesian model with wealth effects to study the performance of monetary policy under Ricardian and non-Ricardian fiscal regimes. The model is calibrated to euro area quarterly data. The interactions between fiscal policy and interest rate rules have critical implications for equilibrium uniqueness. Within the class of
ANNICCHIARICO, BARBARA   +2 more
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The perils of fiscal feedback rules

Journal of Economic Theory
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Menuet, Maxime   +2 more
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