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262 gap statements mined from Fiscal Policies and Political Economy papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 3,374 papers on the topic — drawn mostly from each paper's own stated research gap, future-work, challenge and limitation notes, and its abstract. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one.

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  • Finally, these findings may serve as a benchmark for economies similar to Brazil, and future research should explore whether these relationships hold in broader samples. In turn, the impact of actual fiscal rule breaches on inflation expectations is limited to the 12- and 24-month horizons, with the effect size decreasing as the forecast horizon increases.

    Violating Fiscal Rules: Implications for Inflation, Expectations, and Monetary Credibility · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of a comprehensive understanding of the debt-health nexus. The mixed findings in the existing literature on the relationship between public debt and health expenditure. The need for a theoretical framework that can reconcile the mixed findings.

    Stock neutrality, flow crowding-out, and state dependence: revisiting the debt–health nexus in OECD Europe · 2026 · DOI

  • In particular, an interplay between the fiscal responses and varying efficacy of vaccine distributions in the later phase of the pandemic could be studied.

    Economic and political drivers of fiscal response to COVID-19: empirical approach · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research can apply the study's methodology to other municipal corporations to analyze their expenditure patterns. Future research can explore the impact of different factors on municipal expenditure patterns.

    Predicting the Path of Progress: A Trend and Forecast Analysis of PMC Expenditure · 2026 · DOI

  • The study highlights the need for more balanced investment across sectors in future planning.

    Predicting the Path of Progress: A Trend and Forecast Analysis of PMC Expenditure · 2026 · DOI

  • The prevailing narrative in European economic debate suggests that fiscal discipline is necessary for debt sustainability, but the analysis reveals a paradox. The paper identifies a gap in the understanding of the relationship between fiscal policies and debt dynamics.

    The Paradox of Austerity · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research should investigate the impact of fiscal seasonality on public sector efficiency in other contexts. Future research should explore the use of other techniques, such as stochastic frontier analysis, to analyze public sector efficiency.

    EFICIÊNCIA DA GESTÃO POR RESULTADOS: · 2026 · DOI

  • The study notes that prior research has not fully considered the impact of fiscal seasonality on the effectiveness of incentive systems.

    EFICIÊNCIA DA GESTÃO POR RESULTADOS: · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper suggests that future research should focus on developing more sustainable economic systems. It highlights the need for a more critical analysis of the current economic system and its limitations.

    Debt · 2026 · DOI

  • It highlights the need for a more radical approach to debt forgiveness and resource management.

    Debt · 2026 · DOI

  • The MINT countries need to manage their fiscal resources to support growth-related aspirations. Fiscal sustainability practices are necessary for the MINT countries.

    Fiscal Space, Public Debt Sustainability and Economic Growth: Empirical Inference from the MINT Countries · 2026 · DOI

  • The PVAR model is limited in its ability to account for heterogeneity and cross-sectional dependence. The model does not consider potential cross-sectional dependencies among panel members.

    Fiscal shocks and subnational government finances: evidence from Indian states · 2026 · DOI

  • The literature on assessing the impact of fiscal shocks is primarily based on national level data. There is a need to study the impact of fiscal shocks on subnational finances.

    Fiscal shocks and subnational government finances: evidence from Indian states · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research could explore the effects of the green transition using total debt indicators, extend the scope to include non-EU countries, and use longer time periods to achieve a more comprehensive understanding.

    Does Green Transition Harm EU Public Debt? · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research can build on the study's findings and explore the relationship between government expenditure and national income in other countries. Future research can use different methodologies and techniques to validate the study's results.

    Fiscal footprints in post-reform India: unraveling the nexus between government expenditure and national income · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper notes that Vietnam is reforming its financial regulations to adapt to economic development and global integration. The authors highlight the importance of understanding how legal structures influence public finance policies. The paper aims to provide a foundation for further research on financial law in developing economies.

    THE BASIC OF PUBLIC FINANCES IN THE REGULATION OF HUNGARY AND VIETNAM COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a need for a comparative analysis of public finance law in Hungary and Vietnam. The paper aims to fill this gap by providing an overview of the main fundamental aspects of public finance law in both countries.

    THE BASIC OF PUBLIC FINANCES IN THE REGULATION OF HUNGARY AND VIETNAM COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of integration of macro-level constraints, such as fiscal austerity, into multidimensional measurement strategies linked to observable well-being outcomes.

    Public Value Under Constraint: Fiscal Austerity and the Conversion of Education Policy into Social Well-Being in Brazil · 2026 · DOI

  • The effectiveness of IFIs in SSA is often undermined by limited autonomy, technical capacity, political interference and enforcement challenges.

    Public Debt Management and Independent Fiscal Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Structured Literature Review · 2026 · DOI

  • The significance of key model statistics (Wald and error correction term coefficients) confirmed a unidirectional causal relationship from budget deficits to the human development index, a finding the study discovered to be consistent with the Keynesian theory.

    Fiscal Deficit Financing Strategies and Human Development Outcomes in Nigeria · 2026 · DOI

  • The ARDL model has limited applicability when the data series are integrated of order I(2).

    Fiscal footprints in post-reform India: unraveling the nexus between government expenditure and national income · 2026 · DOI

  • The study identifies a gap in the comparative analysis of fiscal performance of Indian states. The study aims to fill this gap by comparing the fiscal performance of Odisha and West Bengal.

    FISCAL MANAGEMENT AND FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ODISHA AND WEST BENGAL · 2026 · DOI

  • The study identifies a gap in the literature on the effect of fiscal space and public debt on economic growth in the MINT countries. The study aims to fill this gap by providing valuable insights into the complex relationships between public debt, fiscal deficit, and economic growth in the MINT countries.

    Fiscal Space, Public Debt Sustainability and Economic Growth: Empirical Inference from the MINT Countries · 2026 · DOI

  • Conceptual ambiguity in public value research - Difficulty of capturing intangible and long-term components of public value - Limited integration of macro-level constraints into multidimensional measurement…

    Public Value Under Constraint: Fiscal Austerity and the Conversion of Education Policy into Social Well-Being in Brazil · 2026 · DOI

  • The study identifies a gap in the literature on the role of fiscal institutions in promoting fiscal discipline, managing public debt, and supporting economic stability in Sub-Saharan Africa.

    Public Debt Management and Independent Fiscal Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Structured Literature Review · 2026 · DOI

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Open questions raised by papers listed on this page include: (1) These findings may serve as a benchmark for economies similar to Brazil, and future research should explore whether these relationships hold in broader samples (“Violating Fiscal Rules: Implications for Inflation, Expectations, and Monetary…”, 2026); (2) The lack of a comprehensive understanding of the debt-health nexus (“Stock neutrality, flow crowding-out, and state dependence: revisiting the…”, 2026); (3) Future research can apply the study's methodology to other municipal corporations to analyze their expenditure patterns (“Predicting the Path of Progress: A Trend and Forecast Analysis of PMC…”, 2026); (4) Future research should investigate the impact of fiscal seasonality on public sector efficiency in other contexts (“EFICIÊNCIA DA GESTÃO POR RESULTADOS:”, 2026); (5) The paper suggests that future research should focus on developing more sustainable economic systems (“Debt”, 2026). 262 gap statements have been mined from Fiscal Policies and Political Economy papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 3,374 papers on the topic; the gaps come from whichever of those papers state one. They are mostly the research gaps the authors state and the papers' abstracts, plus future-work, limitations and challenges passages. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one, so you can read the original claim in context.

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