Latin America has a long history of pro-cyclical fiscal policies, reflecting the region’s exposure to a range of exogenous shocks, tight financial constraints and relatively weak fiscal institutions. This paper discusses the role that structural balance-based fiscal rules (SFRs) could play in moderating pro-cyclicality, ensuring longer-term debt sustainability, and facilitating the coordination of fiscal with other macro-economic policies in the region. It also focuses on the necessary ingredients for a sound design and successful implementation of SFRs. The fact that these conditions are rather demanding, and unlikely to be adequately fulfilled in many Latin America countries at the present time, suggests that a gradualist approach may be ...
Tradicionalmente, muchos países han mostrado un patrón de política fiscal procíclica: gastando demas...
This paper analyzes the macroeconomic stabilization role of the quantitative fiscal rule submitted b...
Este trabajo describe las reglas de política monetaria y fiscal utilizadas en Chile en años reciente...
El presente Documento de Trabajo recoge los artículos seleccionados en el marco del Call for Papers ...
La fuerte posición macroeconómica permitió que las economías de América Latina mitigaran el impacto ...
La crisis financiera fue enfrentada por América Latina con una posición macroeconómica más sólida, ...
This survey first discusses general characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages of different type...
The computation of structural primary balances for the nine main Latin American countries and their ...
Includes bibliographyIn Latin America, macroeconomic fluctuations have been more frequent and more s...
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Latin American countries experienced important changes in the 2000s. The implementation of fiscal re...
The debate on fiscal policy in Europe centers on how to let automatic stabilizers work while achievi...
This paper analyses fiscal policy for several economies in Latin America, from the early nineties to...
The State has two essential tools to achieve the goal of macroeconomics stability, monetary policy a...
This paper explores the design of sound fiscal rules and their effective implementation and enforcem...
Tradicionalmente, muchos países han mostrado un patrón de política fiscal procíclica: gastando demas...
This paper analyzes the macroeconomic stabilization role of the quantitative fiscal rule submitted b...
Este trabajo describe las reglas de política monetaria y fiscal utilizadas en Chile en años reciente...
El presente Documento de Trabajo recoge los artículos seleccionados en el marco del Call for Papers ...
La fuerte posición macroeconómica permitió que las economías de América Latina mitigaran el impacto ...
La crisis financiera fue enfrentada por América Latina con una posición macroeconómica más sólida, ...
This survey first discusses general characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages of different type...
The computation of structural primary balances for the nine main Latin American countries and their ...
Includes bibliographyIn Latin America, macroeconomic fluctuations have been more frequent and more s...
Este artículo se ocupa de la conveniencia de una regla fiscal de balance estructural para Colombia. ...
Latin American countries experienced important changes in the 2000s. The implementation of fiscal re...
The debate on fiscal policy in Europe centers on how to let automatic stabilizers work while achievi...
This paper analyses fiscal policy for several economies in Latin America, from the early nineties to...
The State has two essential tools to achieve the goal of macroeconomics stability, monetary policy a...
This paper explores the design of sound fiscal rules and their effective implementation and enforcem...
Tradicionalmente, muchos países han mostrado un patrón de política fiscal procíclica: gastando demas...
This paper analyzes the macroeconomic stabilization role of the quantitative fiscal rule submitted b...
Este trabajo describe las reglas de política monetaria y fiscal utilizadas en Chile en años reciente...