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Structural budget balance and fiscal policy stance in Tunisia

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  • Wissem KHANFIR

    (University of Sfax, Tunisia)

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In this paper, we employed the methodology used by the international organizations (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development – OECD, International Monetary Fund – IMF and the European Commission). It is a two-step approach that enables to estimate the structural budget balance in Tunisia for the 1972-2014 period, as an indicator of discretionary fiscal policy. The importance of this indicator is derived from the fact that it helps evaluate the fiscal policy stance. The empirical results showed that the deterioration of the budget balance is due to the economic fluctuations. In Tunisia, it can be confirmed that fiscal policy is largely counter-cyclical.

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  • Wissem KHANFIR, 2018. "Structural budget balance and fiscal policy stance in Tunisia," Theoretical and Applied Economics, Asociatia Generala a Economistilor din Romania / Editura Economica, vol. 0(4(617), W), pages 145-154, Winter.
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