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Fiscal and Monetary Policy During Downturns
Stehn, Sven Jari - 2009
This paper analyzes how fiscal and monetary policy typically respond during downturns in G7 countries. It evaluates whether discretionary fiscal responses to downturns are timely and temporary, and compares the response of fiscal policy to that of monetary policy. The results suggest that while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677745
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Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy with Limited Asset Market Participation
Stehn, Sven Jari - 2009
This paper characterises the jointly optimal monetary and fiscal stabilisation policy in a new Keynesian model that allows for consumers who lacking access to asset markets consume their disposable income each period. With full asset market participation, the optimal policy relies entirely on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677807
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Creating Sustainable Fiscal Space for Infrastructure
Ter-Minassian, Teresa - 2008
maintaining infrastructure networks. Over the past decade, developed and developing countries have looked to fiscal rules … instruments to raise additional finance for infrastructure investment. This paper looks at the range of options for raising the … financing to meet Tanzania's infrastructure needs. It begins with a brief survey of the evidence on the relationship bet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677684
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Monetization in low- and middle-income countries
McLoughlin, Cameron; Kinoshita, Noriaki - 2012
The degree of an economy's monetization, which has an important implication on economic growth, can be affected by the conduct of monetary policy, financial sector reform, and episodes of financial crises. The paper finds that monetization--measured by the ratio of broad money to nominal GDP--...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009618525
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Inflation Pressures and Monetary Policy Options in Emerging and Developing Countries-A Cross Regional Perspective
Ötker, Inci - 2009
This paper analyzes the monetary policy response to rising inflation in emerging and developing countries associated with the food and oil price shocks in 2007 and the first half of 2008. It reviews inflation developments in a sample of countries covering all regions and a broad range of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677694
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Public Investment in Resource-Abundant Developing Countries.
Berg, Andrew - 2012
needs to sustain capital) and the adequate size of a stabilization fund (buffer). …-Investing -- 3 Stabilization Effects of the Sustainable Investing Approach -- Figures -- 1 CEMAC application: saving in a SWF vs. all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012690162
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Fiscal Policy over the Election Cycle in Low-Income Countries
Ebeke, Christian - 2013
Focusing on Low-Income Countries, we investigate the behavior of fiscal variables during and after elections. The results indicate that during election years, government consumption significantly increases and leads to higher fiscal deficits. During the two years following elections, the fiscal...
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Fiscal Sustainability in Remittance-Dependent Economies
Chami, Ralph - 2009
We investigate the impact of remittances on public debt sustainability and detail how the traditional debt-to-GDP ratio can be modified to create a more accurate representation of debt sustainability for a country that receives significant remittance inflows. The main result is that inclusion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677866
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Fiscal Policy and Economic Development
Mourmouras, Alex - 2008
This paper offers possible explanations for three generally observed facts about fiscal policy and development: (F1) The relative size of government increases as an economy develops, (F2) The rise in government and taxation are associated with rising or constant economic growth rates, and (F3)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677599
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Policy analysis and forecasting in the world economy : a panel unobserved components approach
Vitek, Francis - 2012
This paper develops a structural macroeconometric model of the world economy, disaggregated into thirty five national economies. This panel unobserved components model features a monetary transmission mechanism, a fiscal transmission mechanism, and extensive macrofinancial linkages, both within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009618572