Boom-bust phases in asset prices and fiscal policy behavior

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 45-66

  Jaeger, Albert ^a   Schuknecht, Ludger ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asset prices; Boom bust cycles; Cyclical adjustment; Deficit bias; Fiscal policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349072018     PISSN: 1540496X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/REE1540-496X430603     Document Type: Article

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