Fiscal rules and budget forecast errors of Italian Municipalities
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Keywords
budget forecast errors; sub-central fiscal rules; Italian municipalities; quasi-natural experiment; differencein-discontinuities design.;JEL classification:
- E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy
- H68 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Forecasts of Budgets, Deficits, and Debt
- H72 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Budget and Expenditures
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MAC-2019-07-29 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-PBE-2019-07-29 (Public Economics)
- NEP-PUB-2019-07-29 (Public Finance)
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