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Sustainability of Swiss Fiscal Policy
Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics volume 144, pages 57–83 (2008)
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We examine whether Swiss federal fiscal policy was sustainable over the period from 1900 to 2002. We perform unit root and cointegration tests for federal revenues and expenditures, taking into account a structural shift in the budgetary process related to World War II. We find sustainability considering the entire period. However, splitting the sample into two sub-samples before and after World War II, the results do much less support sustainability.
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Kirchgässner, G., Prohl, S. Sustainability of Swiss Fiscal Policy. Swiss J Economics Statistics 144, 57–83 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03399249
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