Fiscal Rules and Green Investments in Developing Countries
Hisguima Dassidi Crepin
No 2023/0298, Working Papers REM from ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, REM, Universidade de Lisboa
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This study highlights the effect of Fiscal Rules(FR) on Green Investments(GI) in developing countries. We analyze the causal effect of adopting rules on green financing using the entropy balancing method in 78 countries. Two hypotheses are tested in this study. The first one states that adopting Fiscal Rules increases green financing, and the second one is related to the ability of different types of rules to attract more investments to fight climate change. First, the results are robust and show that adopting Fiscal Rules increases climate finance. Unlike expenditure rules, deficit, debt, and revenue rules positively affect green financing. The effect of Fiscal Rules on green finance is amplified in countries with strong economic performance, high levels of democracy, goodquality institutions, and a well-functioning state apparatus. On the other hand, the effect of the rules is mitigated in the presence of high natural resource rents.
Keywords: Fiscal rules; green investment; fiscal policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E60 E62 Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-11
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