The Significance of Federal Taxes as Automatic Stabilizers /

In this paper, a simple methodology to assess the effectiveness of automatic stabilizers is proposed and empirically tested using French data for the period 1970-2000. The paper concludes that fiscal stabilizers have dampened output variability by approximately 35 45 percent depending on the measure...

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Autor principal: Di Bella, Gabriel
Format: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicat: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
Col·lecció:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/199
Accés en línia:Full text available on IMF