Policy regime changes and the long-run sustainability of fiscal policy: An application to Greece

Economic Modelling

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 71-86

  Makrydakis, Stelios ^a   Tzavalis, Elias ^b   Balfoussias, Athanassios ^a  

^a Centre of Planning and Economic Research   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

E62; Fiscal policy sustainability; Government debt; H62; H63; Persistent deficits; Unit roots

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012958505     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0264-9993(98)00026-1     Document Type: Article

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