While fiscal plans are expected to provide timely information about planned fiscal budgets, little is known about their value to investors. This paper examines how governments’ fiscal plans can enrich equity investors’ information set and induce consensus about the future fiscal outlook. We...

Although macroeconomic forecasts are a relevant source of information for financial markets, the determinants of their accuracy are still unclear. We examine whether macro forecasting houses' access to private political information is a determinant of macroeconomic forecast accuracy. In...