Is fiscal fatigue a threat to consolidation programmes?

Building on a narrative approach to identify episodes of fiscal consolidation, data for a group of 17 industrial countries over the period 1978-2009 and continuous-time duration models, we find evidence suggesting that the likelihood of a fiscal consolidation ending increases over time, but only for...

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Main Author: Agnello, Luca (author)
Other Authors: Castro, Vítor (author), Sousa, Ricardo M. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/26894
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/26894