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Fiscal Discipline in WAEMU: Rules, Institutions, and Markets

By Ermal Hitaj, Yasin Kursat Onder

October 23, 2013

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Ermal Hitaj, and Yasin Kursat Onder. Fiscal Discipline in WAEMU: Rules, Institutions, and Markets, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2013) accessed December 22, 2024
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Summary

This paper gauges the scope for market discipline and the effectiveness of the regional surveillance framework in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). The paper finds that the responsiveness of sovereign bond rates to governments’ fiscal behavior in the regional financial market remains limited. In addition, the paper examines the effectiveness of fiscal rules and institutions in an environment where financial markets fall short of exerting a significant disciplining effect on governments.

Subject: Economic integration, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, Government asset and liability management, Government debt management, Monetary unions, Public debt, Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords: B. WAEMU, Excess reserves, Financial market, Fiscal discipline, Fiscal rules, Fiscal stance, Global, Government asset and liability management, Government debt management, Interest rate spread, Market discipline, Monetary union, Monetary unions, Regional surveillance sovereign risk, Sovereign spreads, WAEMU, WAEMU debt market, WAEMU market consist, WAEMU treaty, West Africa, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    29

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2013/216

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2013216

  • ISBN:

    9781484398685

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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