How Quickly is News Incorporated in Fiscal Forecasts?
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budget balance; forecast comparison; information rigidity; Panel VAR; impulse response functions;All these keywords.
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- C5 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling
- E6 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
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