Appraising fiscal reaction functions

Antonio Afonso and Joao Jalles

Economics Bulletin, 2011, vol. 31, issue 4, 3320-3330

Abstract: We estimate fiscal responses for an OECD panel, accounting for cross-country interactions, and also estimate the fiscal responses in a panel VAR. We find that governments have increased primary balances when facing higher government indebtedness, implying a Ricardian fiscal regime, while primary balances have improved to reduce government debt. These results hold for the single regression panel analysis and for the panel VAR.

Keywords: fiscal regimes; Panel VAR; cross-sectional dependence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C2 H6 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-12-09
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