TY  - JOUR
TI  - Determinants of fiscal rules
AB  - This article empirically assesses determinants of countries’ fiscal rules suggested by the political science, sociology and economics literature. We find several of these variables to be related to the stringency of fiscal rules, providing indirect evidence for the relevance of governments’ deficit bias. These determinants may also serve as instruments in models with (endogenous) fiscal rules as explanatory variable.
DO  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2016.1173171
SP  - 154
EP  - 158
PY  - 2017-01-01
JO  - Applied Economics Letters
AU  - Badinger, Harald 
AU  - Reuter, Wolf Heinrich 
ER -