National saving and fiscal policy in South Africa: an empirical analysis

This article studies the dynamics of gross national saving, government saving and private saving in response to fiscal shocks, by using the impulse response functions (IRF) obtained from the structural vector autoregressive (SVAR). This article aims to determine the extent to which fiscal policy in...

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Main Author: Lumengo Bonga-Bonga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Free State 2009-01-01
Series:Acta Academica
Online Access:http://196.255.246.28/index.php/aa/article/view/1199