Fiscal Sustainability of Mexican Debt Decisions: Is Bad Behavior Rewarded?

• In Event: Monetary vs Fiscal Politics

Brief Overview

This research uses municipal data from Mexico 2000 to 2017 to establish the “primary gap” proposed by Blanchard (1990)and test with panel model to study how local governments are paying for their loans and how those affect fiscal sustainability.

Author

• Heidi Jane M. Smith, Universidad Iberoamericana