Assessing public debt sustainability for Costa Rica using the fiscal reaction function

This paper assesses Costa Rica's public debt sustainability empirically using three complementary approaches: the calculation of the debt-stabilizing primary fiscal balance obtained from the government's intertemporal budget constraint, the estimation of the parameters of a fiscal policy r...

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Main Authors: Valerie Lankester-Campos, Kerry Loaiza-Marín, Carlos Monge-Badilla
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-01-01
Series:Latin American Journal of Central Banking
Subjects:
C22
H63
C15
E62
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666143820300144