same spirit, cyclicality and persistence patterns differ with the type of fiscal rule. Of course, these relationships do not imply causal effects of fiscal rules on business cycle moments, as different types of fiscal rules may be adopted by countries in response to their business cycle characteristics. Decoupling these feedback effects is left for future work.

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