Does the sustainable fiscal policy foster its credibility?

<p>This paper examines the credibility and sustainability of fiscal policy in the case of Indonesia. The standard model of fiscal sustainability is modified to accommodate the credibility aspect. The empirical estimates are done by employing several aspects of the time series econometric liter...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haryo Kuncoro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitas Islam Indonesia 2017-03-01
Series:Economic Journal of Emerging Markets
Subjects:
Online Access:http://journal.uii.ac.id/index.php/JEP/article/view/6178
_version_ 1819003238366576640
author Haryo Kuncoro
author_facet Haryo Kuncoro
author_sort Haryo Kuncoro
collection DOAJ
description <p>This paper examines the credibility and sustainability of fiscal policy in the case of Indonesia. The standard model of fiscal sustainability is modified to accommodate the credibility aspect. The empirical estimates are done by employing several aspects of the time series econometric literature including unit roots, degree of integration, co-integration, and stability tests. Based on the deficit forecast error reaction function, we estimate the quarterly data over the period 2001-2013 relying on the autoregressive distributed lag model. The results present that the deficit rule policy is not credible while central government's debt is unsustainable. The coexistence of non-credibility and unsustainability of fiscal policy in Indonesia is also closely related to the world oil prices and trade openness fluctuations. Under these strong external circumstances instability, the fiscal authority credibility plays an important role in conducting fiscal rule policy which operates primarily through a signalling effect.</p>
first_indexed 2024-12-20T23:17:49Z
format Article
id doaj.art-92eed7066cfe4e48961d1917e0858b89
institution Directory Open Access Journal
issn 2086-3128
2502-180X
language English
last_indexed 2024-12-20T23:17:49Z
publishDate 2017-03-01
publisher Universitas Islam Indonesia
record_format Article
series Economic Journal of Emerging Markets
spelling doaj.art-92eed7066cfe4e48961d1917e0858b892022-12-21T19:23:36ZengUniversitas Islam IndonesiaEconomic Journal of Emerging Markets2086-31282502-180X2017-03-0191849710.20885/ejem.vol9.iss1.art95579Does the sustainable fiscal policy foster its credibility?Haryo Kuncoro0Faculty of Economics State University of Jakarta<p>This paper examines the credibility and sustainability of fiscal policy in the case of Indonesia. The standard model of fiscal sustainability is modified to accommodate the credibility aspect. The empirical estimates are done by employing several aspects of the time series econometric literature including unit roots, degree of integration, co-integration, and stability tests. Based on the deficit forecast error reaction function, we estimate the quarterly data over the period 2001-2013 relying on the autoregressive distributed lag model. The results present that the deficit rule policy is not credible while central government's debt is unsustainable. The coexistence of non-credibility and unsustainability of fiscal policy in Indonesia is also closely related to the world oil prices and trade openness fluctuations. Under these strong external circumstances instability, the fiscal authority credibility plays an important role in conducting fiscal rule policy which operates primarily through a signalling effect.</p>http://journal.uii.ac.id/index.php/JEP/article/view/6178Deficit, Fiscal Rules, Credibility, Debt Sustainability, ARDL
spellingShingle Haryo Kuncoro
Does the sustainable fiscal policy foster its credibility?
Economic Journal of Emerging Markets
Deficit, Fiscal Rules, Credibility, Debt Sustainability, ARDL
title Does the sustainable fiscal policy foster its credibility?
title_full Does the sustainable fiscal policy foster its credibility?
title_fullStr Does the sustainable fiscal policy foster its credibility?
title_full_unstemmed Does the sustainable fiscal policy foster its credibility?
title_short Does the sustainable fiscal policy foster its credibility?
title_sort does the sustainable fiscal policy foster its credibility
topic Deficit, Fiscal Rules, Credibility, Debt Sustainability, ARDL
url http://journal.uii.ac.id/index.php/JEP/article/view/6178
work_keys_str_mv AT haryokuncoro doesthesustainablefiscalpolicyfosteritscredibility