Polito, Vito (contributor); Wickens, Michael R. (contributor) - 2007 - Rev.
to construct a
time series of the indices of the fiscal stances of the US, the UK and Germany over the last 25 or more …
years. We find that both the US and UK fiscal stances have deteriorated considerably since 2000 and
Germany’s has been … to compute and readily automated.
We use our methodology to examine the fiscal stances of the US, the UK and Germany over …