Should we worry about fiscal policy in CEE?

Fiscal stimulus packages recently announced in Central and Eastern Europe won’t trouble public debt positions, but are coming at a late stage of economic cycles. As a result, they will cause macro imbalances to build and limit governments’ ammunition to respond to the next downturn.

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