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Mark Hallerberg

In: Handbook of Public Administration

Chapter 31: Fiscal Rules and Fiscal Policy

Edited by: B. Guy Peters & Jon Pierre

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781848608214.n32

Subject: Public Administration (general)

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Hallerberg, M. (2003). Fiscal rules and fiscal policy. In B. G. Peters & J. Pierre Handbook of public administration (pp. 393-401). London: SAGE Publications Ltd doi: 10.4135/9781848608214.n32

Hallerberg, Mark. "Fiscal Rules and Fiscal Policy." In Handbook of Public Administration, 393-401. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2003. doi: 10.4135/9781848608214.n32.

Hallerberg, M 2003, 'Fiscal rules and fiscal policy', in Handbook of public administration, SAGE Publications Ltd, London, pp. 393-401, viewed 6 December 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781848608214.n32.

Hallerberg, Mark. "Fiscal Rules and Fiscal Policy." Handbook of Public Administration. B. G. Peters and Jon Pierre. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2003. 393-401. SAGE Knowledge. Web. 6 Dec. 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781848608214.n32.

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Fiscal Rules and Fiscal Policy
Fiscal rules and fiscal policy

Formal rules in budgeting are designed to address certain problems. This chapter classifies formal rules according to the problems some rules are meant to solve. It begins with a consideration of the common pool resource problem, which develops when spending is targeted to a specific group but the taxes used to pay for it come from general revenues. It then considers a related issue that can exist when there are multiple levels of government, namely the moral hazard problem. Lower levels of government are prone to spend more when they expect that higher levels of government are going to bail them out. The third topic is the ‘principal-agent’ problem. Budgets inevitably involve some form of delegation ...

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