On Graduation from Fiscal Procyclicality
36 Pages Posted: 24 Nov 2011 Last revised: 22 Feb 2023
Date Written: November 2011
Abstract
In the past, industrial countries have tended to pursue countercyclical or, at worst, acyclical fiscal policy. In sharp contrast, emerging and developing countries have followed procyclical fiscal policy, thus exacerbating the underlying business cycle. We show that, over the last decade, about a third of the developing world has been able to escape the procyclicality trap and actually become countercyclical. We then focus on the role played by the quality of institutions, which appears to be a key determinant of a country's ability to graduate. We show that, even after controlling for the endogeneity of institutions and other determinants of ...scal procyclicality, there is a causal link running from stronger institutions to less procyclical or more countercyclical fiscal policy.
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