Fiscal Policy and financial markets / prepared by Bernardin Akitoby and Thomas Stratmann.

This paper introduces fiscal policy in a model of sovereign risk spreads ("spreads"). Using panel data from emerging market countries, we find that reductions in public expenditure are a more powerful tool for reducing spreads than increases in revenues. Specifically, cuts in current spend...

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Main Authors: Akitoby, Bernardin (Author), Stratmann, Thomas (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, IMF Institute, 2006.
Series:IMF working paper ; WP/06/16.
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