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reduce consumption in anticipation of future fiscal adjustments when fiscal stimulus is implemented from a weak fiscal …
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Ricardian channel through which households reduce consumption in anticipation of future fiscal adjustments …
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This paper proposes a sovereign asset and liability management framework for analyzing the inter-relationships between debt management, fiscal and monetary policies. It illustrates the consequences of uncoordinated policy mix and extends Sargent and Wallace (1981 and 1993) by including debt...
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This paper analyzes the procyclicality of fiscal policy on the tax and spending sides in a sample of 116 developing countries between 2000 and 2016. About 20 percent of the countries in the sample switched from procyclical to countercyclical policy stance. In Sub-Saharan Africa, 30 of 39...
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The author describes a spread-sheet planning model to help determine the government deficit consistent with a policymaker's "vector" of principal macroeconomic objectives (including real GDP growth, inflation, exchange rate, and international reserve accumulation). The model focuses on the...
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With the benefit of hindsight, this paper provides a fresh and comprehensive look at the causes of the 2014-16 collapse in oil prices and its impact on the global economy. It disentangles the contribution of supply and demand factors, assesses the impact on activity in oil exporters and oil...
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Transfers to individuals were a larger part of the 2009 U.S. stimulus package than government purchases. Using a two-agent New Keynesian model, this paper shows analytically that the multiplier on targeted transfers to financially constrained households is (i) larger than the purchase multiplier...
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This paper analyzes Botswana's medium-term fiscal sustainability in view of the expected depletion of diamonds in the future. The analysis shows that in the absence of policy adjustments, Botswana's current fiscal policy strategy is unsustainable over the longer term, which could endanger...
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A common criticism of balanced budget fiscal rules is that they increase the consumption volatility of financially … constrained households who are unable to smooth consumption. This paper evaluates the welfare consequences of simple fiscal rules … to perfectly smooth constrained households? consumption without adversely affecting unconstrained households …
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the cyclical properties of real government consumption in the region with those in other developing regions and high … finds that government consumption is procyclical in Sub-Saharan African countries, more so than in other regions, and that … evidence does not suggest that resource wealth or fragility increases the procyclicality of government consumption in Sub …
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