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 -