%0 Journal Article
%T Debt and other determinants of fiscal policy use
%A William DiPietro
%J Journal of Applied Finance and Banking
%D 2011
%I Scienpress Ltd
%X Using a measure of variation in real government expenditure for the period 1998through 2008, this paper employs cross country regression analysis to look at theeffect of public debt, both singularly and when adjusting for control variables, onfiscal policy usage. The empirical findings are consistent with the hypothesis thathigher public debt tends to lessen the use of fiscal policy.
%K Fiscal Policy
%K Debt
%K Public Trust
%K Development
%U http://www.scienpress.com/Upload/JAFB/Vol%201_3_8.pdf