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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810745603321

Autore

Tanner Evan

Titolo

Probabilistic Sustainability of Public Debt : : A Vector Autoregression Approach for Brazil, Mexico, and Turkey / / Evan Tanner, Issouf Samaké

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-4979-X

1-4527-0573-9

1-283-51672-1

9786613829177

1-4519-1008-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (44 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

SamakéIssouf

Soggetti

Debts, Public - Brazil - Econometric models

Debts, Public - Mexico - Econometric models

Debts, Public - Turkey - Econometric models

Fiscal policy - Brazil - Econometric models

Fiscal policy - Mexico - Econometric models

Fiscal policy - Turkey - Econometric models

Banks and Banking

Foreign Exchange

Macroeconomics

Public Finance

Allocative Efficiency

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Policy Objectives

Policy Designs and Consistency

Policy Coordination

Fiscal Policy

Debt

Debt Management

Sovereign Debt

Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects

Public finance & taxation

Currency

Foreign exchange

Finance

Fiscal policy

Public debt



Fiscal sustainability

Exchange rates

Real interest rates

Financial services

Debts, Public

Interest rates

Brazil

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"December 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 39-42).

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY: SOME PREVIOUS WORK""; ""III. OVERVIEW OF OUR METHODOLOGY""; ""IV. BRAZIL, 2000�05""; ""V. MEXICO""; ""VI. TURKEY""; ""VII. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS""; ""APPENDIX ECONOMETRIC METHODOLOGY AND ESTIMATES""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

This paper examines the sustainability of fiscal policy under uncertainty in three emerging market countries, Brazil, Mexico, and Turkey. For each country, we estimate a vector autoregression (VAR) that includes fiscal and macroeconomic variables. Retrospectively, a historical decomposition shows by how much debt accumulation reflects unsustainable policy, adverse shocks, or both. Prospectively, Monte Carlo techniques reveal the primary surplus that is required to keep the debt/GDP ratio from rising in all but the worst 50 percent, 25 percent, and 10 percent of circumstances. Such a value-at-risk approach presents a clearer menu of policy options than currently used frameworks.