TY - BOOK AU - Catao,Luis AU - Terrones,Marco TI - Fiscal deficit and inflation: a new look at the emerging market evidence T2 - IMF working paper U1 - 336.3 21 PY - 2001/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - International Monetary Fund KW - POLITICA FISCAL KW - INFLACION N1 - Bibliografía: p. 29-31 N2 - Empirical studies have had little success in finding a statistically significant relationship between fiscal deficits and inflation in broad cross-country panels. This paer provides new econometric estimates for a panel of 23 emerging market countries during 1970-2000. We find that a 1 percentage point reduction in the ratio of fiscal deficit to GDP typically lowers long-run inflation by 1½ to 6 percentage points, depending on the size of the inflation tax base ER -