Fiscal Policy Coordination and International Trade
While assertions are often made that non-cooperative fiscal policies suffer a contractionary bias, general equilibrium models have shown that the bias is unambiguously expansionary. This paper argues that the latter result relies on a particular and critical way of modelling international trade, and that under a more plausible trade structure, it is possible that fiscal policy is insufficiently expansionary in the non-cooperative case. Non-cooperative policy-making thus implies that fiscal policies are used too little if they expand private employment, and too much if they contract private employment. Inefficiencies in non-cooperative fiscal policies worsen when product markets become more integrated. Copyright (c) The London School of Economics and Political Science 2006.
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2007
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Authors: | ANDERSEN, TORBEN M. |
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Economica. - London School of Economics (LSE). - Vol. 74.2007, 294, p. 235-257
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London School of Economics (LSE) |
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