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dc.titleResearch Insights: Can the Design of Fiscal Rules Help to Protect Productive Public Investment from Budget Cuts?
dc.contributor.authorArdanaz, Martín
dc.contributor.authorCavallo, Eduardo A.
dc.contributor.authorIzquierdo, Alejandro
dc.contributor.authorPuig, Jorge
dc.contributor.orgunitDepartment of Research and Chief Economist
dc.date.available2021-01-12T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2021-01-12T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractFlexible fiscal rules include mechanisms to accommodate unexpected/exogenous shocks. In countries without fiscal rules, or with rigid rules (i.e., rules without flexible features), public investment falls sharply during fiscal consolidation episodesby as much as 10 percent on average. The negative impact of fiscal consolidations on public investment disappears in countries using flexible fiscal rules.
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dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003003
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Research-Insights-Can-the-Design-of-Fiscal-Rules-Help-to-Protect-Productive-Public-Investment-from-Budget-Cuts.pdf
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/spanish/document/Perspectivas-de-investigacion-Puede-contribuir-el-diseno-de-reglas-fiscales-a-proteger-la-inversion-publica-productiva-de-los-recortes-presupuestarios.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectFiscal Policy
dc.subjectPublic Investment
dc.subjectPublic Expenditure
dc.subjectGovernment Budget
dc.subjectFiscal Consolidation
dc.subjectFiscal Rule
dc.subject.jelcodeH54 - Infrastructures • Other Public Investment and Capital Stock
dc.subject.jelcodeE32 - Business Fluctuations • Cycles
dc.subject.jelcodeH50 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General
dc.subject.jelcodeE60 - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook: General
dc.subject.jelcodeH12 - Crisis Management
dc.typeCatalogs and Brochures
idb.identifier.pubnumberIDB-CB-00477
idb.operationBK-C1102
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