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2016
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2729709
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Fiscal Policy and the Cycle in Latin America: The Role of Financing Conditions and Fiscal Rules

Abstract: A stronger macroeconomic position when the financial crisis erupted allowed Latin American economies to mitigate its impact through fiscal expansions, temporarily reversing the characteristic procyclical behaviour of fiscal policy. At the same time, in the last two decades fiscal rules have been extensively adopted in the region. This paper analyses the stabilising role of discretionary fiscal policy over time, and the influence of fiscal financing conditions and of fiscal rules in said behaviour for a sample … Show more

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“…Table 6 shows that they also played a positive and significant role in fiscal results. Although there is still no consensus in the empirical literature about their direct capacity to contribute to macroeconomic stability (Dos Reis et al, 2007), it is reasonable to expect that fiscal rules helped Latin American countries to produce more fiscal discipline and credibility, which contributed to improve their fiscal condition, at least in the early 2000sas also shown by Alberola et al (2016).…”
Section: Data Description and Empirical Strategymentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Table 6 shows that they also played a positive and significant role in fiscal results. Although there is still no consensus in the empirical literature about their direct capacity to contribute to macroeconomic stability (Dos Reis et al, 2007), it is reasonable to expect that fiscal rules helped Latin American countries to produce more fiscal discipline and credibility, which contributed to improve their fiscal condition, at least in the early 2000sas also shown by Alberola et al (2016).…”
Section: Data Description and Empirical Strategymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Velasco (1997) and Tornell and Lane (1999) argue that deficit is often provoked by the intensification of disputes among interest groups over common revenue (voracity effect). 1 A number of authors still argue that Latin American governments' behavior was not different during the recent years (Daude et al 2010;Ocampo, 2011) given that the implementation of countercyclical fiscal policies was the exception rather than the rule in the region (Alberola et al 2016;Bello and Jim enez, 2008;Klemm, 2014). Nonetheless, not all the scholars agree with these conclusions and argue that something changed especially in the second half of 2000s (Fern andez-Arias and P erez 2014).…”
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“…El doble objetivo de la estabilización del ciclo y la sostenibilidad de la deuda pública usualmente crea disyuntivas, en particular en los países que no han concluido las reformas para consolidar sus finanzas públicas, cuando estas dependen de los ingresos por la explotación de los recursos naturales y cuando las instituciones fiscales son débiles. La disyuntiva entre estabilización y sostenibilidad se hace más evidente en las fases de bajo crecimiento económico, como el que ha venido enfrentando Colombia y el resto de los países de la región en los años recientes, debido a las pérdidas de la recaudación tributaria y porque los mercados de crédito se vuelven más restrictivos para otorgar financiamiento (Alberola et al, 2018;Dzhambova, 2017;Riascos y Vegh, 2003;Gavin y Perotti, 1997).…”
Section: La Política Fiscal Y La Estabilización Macroeconómica En Colunclassified
“…Si bien hay evidencia acerca de que la aplicación de una regla fomenta el comportamiento contracíclico de la política fiscal (Bergman y Hutchison, 2015;Grembi et al, 2016;Alberola et al, 2016), no hay tanto consenso en relación al diseño de la regla. Es por esto que, en la primera parte del artículo, luego de mencionar los incentivos existentes para la aplicación de las reglas fiscales, se ha analizado sus opciones de diseño.…”
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