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, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay implementing the standardised OECD methodology and extending it to include commodity cycles, which …
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Measuring cyclically-adjusted budget balances for OECD countries An important tool in the analysis of fiscal policy is the distinction between structural and cyclical components of the budget balance. This paper describes work undertaken to re-estimate and re-specify the elasticities underlying...
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This paper assesses to what extent some components of government budgets affected by the macroeconomic situation operate to smooth the business cycle in individual OECD countries. It is shown that these automatic fiscal stabilisers have generally reduced cyclical volatility in the 1990s....
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This paper explores the political economy of fiscal adjustment. It begins with an examination of the evidence for, and sources of, ‘deficit bias’, including political and governance factors, public attitudes, the role of financial markets and imprecision about which debt targets should be...
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This paper analyses the reaction of fiscal policy to the cycle in OECD countries. The results suggest that while overall government balances were counter-cyclical in the past and more so in economic downturns than in upswings, discretionary fiscal policy was neutral on average. However,...
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, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay implementing the standardised OECD methodology and extending it to include commodity cycles, which …
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, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay implementing the standardised OECD methodology and extending it to include commodity cycles, which …
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, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay implementing the standardised OECD methodology and extending it to include commodity cycles, which …
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, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay implementing the standardised OECD methodology and extending it to include commodity cycles, which …
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nor to practically increase Italian government debt, but to practically cause a mere reduction in taxation and thence in … associated with them, would have (i) stimulated expenditure more than a taxation rebate to the said firms and (ii) facilitated … taxation credit certificates endowed with a further reduction in taxation conditional on their use for consumption, termed …
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