Kirchgässner, Gebhard; Prohl, Silika - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) 144 (2008) I, pp. 57-83
Was Swiss federal fiscal policy sustainable over the period from 1900 to 2002? We perform unit root and cointegration … sustainability over the entire period. However, splitting the sample into two sub-samples before and after World War II, the results … do much less support sustainability. Finally, applying the tax smoothing model of BARRO (1979), we show that cyclical …