Afonso, António; Coelho, José Carlos - 2024
We assess the drivers of fiscal sustainability in 20 OECD economies between 1950 and 2019. We find stable long … interest rate and the real GDP growth rate (r-g) plays a crucial role in fiscal sustainability, as well as the existence of … fiscal rules on sustainability coefficients à la Hakkio and Rush (1991) and Bohn (1998) are heterogenous. Furthermore, before …