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dc.titlePrimary Balance: Sustainability Analysis under Uncertainty
dc.contributor.authorLankester Campos, Valerie
dc.contributor.authorLoaiza Marín, Kerry
dc.contributor.authorMonge Badilla, Carlos
dc.contributor.orgunitDepartment of Research and Chief Economist
dc.coverageCosta Rica
dc.date.available2020-10-30T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2020-10-30T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractThis paper analyzes the sustainability of Costa Rican sovereign debt within the intertemporal budget constraint framework, which is complemented with the estimation of the fiscal reaction function and a risk assessment under the fan chart methodology using annual data from 1974 until 2018. Results show that fiscal behavior has been unsustainable for specific episodes in the long run, and in the short run there have been few instances of debt sustainability since the economic crisis of the early 1980s. Given that a major fiscal reform was approved at the end of 2018, an evaluation of its impact on the path of adjustment of primary balance, considering uncertainty, is included.
dc.format.extent49
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0002800
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Primary-Balance-Sustainability-Analysis-under-Uncertainty.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectFiscal Policy
dc.subjectSustainability
dc.subjectPublic Debt
dc.subjectFiscal Sustainability
dc.subjectExchange Rate
dc.subjectInterest Rate
dc.subjectGross Domestic Product
dc.subject.jelcodeE62 - Fiscal Policy
dc.subject.jelcodeC22 - Time-Series Models • Dynamic Quantile Regressions • Dynamic Treatment Effect Models • Diffusion Processes
dc.subject.jelcodeH63 - Debt • Debt Management • Sovereign Debt
dc.subject.jelcodeC15 - Statistical Simulation Methods: General
dc.subject.keywordsdebt sustainability;Primary balance;Fiscal reaction function;Riskassessment;Fan chart
dc.typeWorking Papers
idb.identifier.pubnumberIDB-WP-01151
idb.operationRG-T3103
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