Budgeting versus implementing fiscal policy:the Italian case
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Keywords
fiscal plans; real-time data; implementation; budget process; expenditure and revenue; Italy;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
- H60 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - General
- H5 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies
- H68 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Forecasts of Budgets, Deficits, and Debt
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