Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51453 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 598
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department, Washington, DC
Abstract: 
This paper discusses whether a country should conduct fiscal policy by targeting a structural (or cyclically adjusted) fiscal balance. The paper is divided into three sections. The first section discusses the concept of cyclically adjusted balance (CAB) and points out practical and conceptual problems related to the interpretation and the measurement of a CAB. The second section discusses the theoretical rationale for having a fiscal rule in general and a rule defined in terms of a cyclically adjusted balance in particular. The third section discusses conceptual and practical problems with adopting fiscal rules and rules that target the structural balance.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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