The Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy in Stimulating Economic Activity : A Review of the Literature /

This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on the effectiveness of fiscal policy. The focus is on the size of fiscal multipliers, and on the possibility that multipliers can turn negative (i.e., that fiscal contractions can be expansionary). The paper concludes that fiscal multiplie...

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Hlavní autor: Mahfouz, Selma
Další autoři: Hemming, Richard, Kell, Michael
Médium: Časopis
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
Edice:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/208
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Shrnutí:This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on the effectiveness of fiscal policy. The focus is on the size of fiscal multipliers, and on the possibility that multipliers can turn negative (i.e., that fiscal contractions can be expansionary). The paper concludes that fiscal multipliers are overwhelmingly positive but small. However, there is some evidence of negative fiscal multipliers.
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