Fiscal sustainability in an emerging market economy: When does public debt turn bad?

This paper proposes a Markov-switching model to assess the sustainability of fiscal policy in Malaysia for the period 1980-2014. Our results indicate the policymakers in the past have followed a sustainable fiscal policy, except during the brief periods of economic difficulty. The empirical analysis...

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Main Authors: Baharumshah, A.Z, Soon, Siewvoon, Lau, Evan
Format: E-Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V. 2017
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Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/15340/2/ScienceDirectFiscal%20sustainability%20in%20an%20emerging%20market%20economy%20%28abstract%29.pdf
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/15340/
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85008313687&doi=10.1016%2fj.jpolmod.2016.11.002&partnerID=40&md5=747fb39ea9becdfbf141f3ac82fd5e5d
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Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
Language: English