Publications

Ilzetzki, Ethan (2011). Rent-Seeking Distortions and Fiscal Procyclicality Journal of Development Economics 96, pp. 30-46.

Working Papers

How Big (Small?) are Fiscal Multipliers?

(with Enrique G. Mendoza and Carlos A. Vegh)

Version: September 2011.

Also available as NBER Working Paper 16479  and CEP Discussion Paper 1016            

Weak States and Steady States: The Dynamics of Fiscal Capacity  

(with Tim Besley and Torsten Persson)

Version: April 2011.                      

Fiscal Policy and Debt Dynamics in Developing Countries

Version: May 2011.                      

Kosher Pork

(with Allan Drazen)

Version: March 2011.

Also available as NBER Working Paper 16667                      

Procyclical Fiscal Policy in Developing Countries: Truth or Fiction

(With Carlos A. Vegh)                           

Version: July 2008.

Also available as NBER Working Paper 14191