Mathieu, Catherine; Sterdyniak, Henri - In: Revue de l'OFCE N° 127 (2013) 1, pp. 189-233
The public finances crisis has brought binding fiscal rules proposals back to the forefront. The paper analyses their justifications and specifications, either in a classical or in a Keynesian framework. In the recent period there is no evidence that public deficits were caused by fiscal...