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    A Fiscal Rule to achieve debt sustainability in Colombia

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    Date

    2020-11

    Author

    Arbeláez, María A.
    Benítez, Miguel
    Steiner, Roberto
    Valencia, Oscar
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    Asistente

    Higuera, Sebastián
    Bernal, Sebastián

    Financiador

    Inter-American Development Bank - IDB

    URI

    http://hdl.handle.net/11445/4041

    Citation

    Arbeláez, M. A.; Benítez, M. Steiner, R. & Valencia, O. (2020). A Fiscal Rule to achieve debt sustainability in Colombia. Bogotá: Fedesarrollo.
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    Abstract

    In order to enhance fiscal sustainability and regain the “investment grade” credit rating lost in 1999, Colombia implemented a fiscal rule (FR) in 2011 on the Central Government´s structural balance. Although investment grade was attained, public debt has increased continuously and is now expected to exceed 60% of GDP in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue that although the FR has proved to be an important tool to promote fiscal discipline, it can and should be improved. We undertake several quantitative exercises in support of reforming the current FR so that it incorporates a debt anchor. First, using the synthetic control approach we show that, notwithstanding the observed increase in debt, the situation would have been worse in the absence of the FR. In the same vein, we show that despite the decline in public investment observed since the oil shock in 2014, the contraction would also have occurred in the absence of the fiscal rule. We then estimate a prudent debt level using a regime-change approach and the IMF´s buffer-risk methodology and simulate the trajectory of the FR in the medium term, incorporating a debt anchor and conditioned on different growth scenarios and additional expenditure related with the pandemic. We show that the prudent debt level should not exceed 48% of GDP and that in order to achieve this level in the medium term, a policy mix increasing fiscal revenues to 17,8% of GDP (from 15,5% during 2016-2019) and reducing primary expenditure to 15% (from 16% during 2016-2019) is required. Along with including a debt anchor, FR’s performance would also benefit from changes in its institutional design.

    Palabras clave

    Regla Fiscal
    Deuda Pública
    Política Fiscal
    Colombia

    Keywords

    Fiscal Rule
    Public Debt
    Synthetic Control Method
    Debt Anchor
    Colombia

    JEL

    E37
    E62
    H42
    H30
    H60
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