El Anshasy, Amany A.; Bradley, Michael D. - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 34 (2012) 5, pp. 605-620
This paper empirically investigates the role that oil prices play in determining fiscal policy in oil-exporting countries. We derive and estimate a fiscal policy equation that links government spending not only to oil price shocks, but also to oil price volatility and the skewness of oil price...