Resumen de US deficit sustainability revisited: a multiple structural change approach

María del Carmen Díaz Roldán, Oscar Bajo Rubio, Vicente Esteve

• In this paper we re-examine the long-run sustainability of US budget deficits, using Bai and Perron's multiple structural change approach. While the deficit would have been weakly sustainable over the full sample (1947:1-2004:3), strong sustainability would appear only between 1982:1 and 1995:4.