
Underlying Factors Driving Fiscal Effort in Emerging Market Economies »
Journal Issue
Volume/Issue: 2005/106
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Taimur Baig , and Abdul Abiad
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 June 2005
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451861259.001
ISBN: 9781451861259
Keywords: fiscal effort, institutional variables, democratic accountability, fiscal adjustment, Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Other,
Using a panel dataset of 34 emerging market countries for the period 1990-2002, we examine the roles of various economic, political, and institutional variables in determining fiscal effort, as proxied by the prima...