Ghatak, Subrata; Sánchez-Fung, José R. - In: Review of Development Economics 11 (2007) 3, pp. 518-530
This paper investigates fiscal policy sustainability in Peru, the Philippines, South Africa, Thailand, and Venezuela using competing methodologies. Standard unit roots and cointegration analyses do not endorse the validity of the intertemporal budget constraint. In contrast, to varying degrees...