Fiscal sustainability and dollarization: the case of Ecuador

María Lorena Marí Del Cristo and Marta Gómez-Puig ()

Applied Economics, 2016, vol. 48, issue 23, 2139-2155

Abstract: This article tries to disentangle the dynamic relationships between fiscal variables and economic activity in a small emerging economy characterized by full dollarization, namely, Ecuador. We find that fiscal policy in Ecuador seems to be sustainable, explained by its policy of debt payment through oil revenues, rather than by a fiscal discipline that dollarization is supposed to encourage. The non-oil tax revenues variable is a purely adjusting variable. This result suggests that in a dollarized country that cannot benefit from the ‘seignorage’ revenues, the reliance on volatile oil revenues and on smoothing tax revenues leaves the economy’s fiscal sustainability vulnerable.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2015.1114580

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