Revisiting the Countercyclicality of Fiscal Policy by João Tovar Jalles, Youssouf Kiendrebeogo, W. Raphael Lam, and Roberto Piazza published by IMF (2023). This paper provides a novel dataset of time-varying measures on the degree of countercyclicality of fiscal policies…
Fiscal Rules and Fiscal Councils Recent Trends and Performance during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Hamid R. Davoodi, Paul Elger, Alexandra Fotiou, Daniel Garcia-Macia, Xuehui Han, Andresa Lagerborg, W. Raphael Lam, and Paulo Medas published by IMF (1/2022). Adoption offiscal…
Fiscal Policies for the Recovery from COVID-19 por Vitor Gaspar, W. Raphael Lam, and Mehdi Raissi published by IMFBlog (5/2020). “Fiscal policies have provided large emergency lifelines to people and firms during the COVID-19 pandemic. They are also…
