Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/237449 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-1151
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes the sustainability of Costa Rican sovereign debt within the intertemporal budget constraint framework, which is complemented with the estimation of the fiscal reaction function and a risk assessment under the fan chart methodology using annual data from 1974 until 2018. Results show that fiscal behavior has been unsustainable for specific episodes in the long run, and in the short run there have been few instances of debt sustainability since the economic crisis of the early 1980s. Given that a major fiscal reform was approved at the end of 2018, an evaluation of its impact on the path of adjustment of primary balance, considering uncertainty, is included.
Subjects: 
Debt sustainability
Primary balance
Fiscal reaction function
Risk assessment
Fan chart
JEL: 
C22
H63
C15
E62
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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