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Fiscal Multipliers for Brazil

By Troy D Matheson, Joana Pereira

March 25, 2016

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Troy D Matheson, and Joana Pereira. Fiscal Multipliers for Brazil, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2016) accessed October 15, 2024
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Summary

We find historical fiscal multipliers for Brazil around 0.5, larger than what existing literature typically identifies for the average emerging market. However, spending and public credit multipliers seem to have dropped to near zero since the global financial crisis, as the estimate for the whole sample period (1999-2014) is about ½ of that for precrisis years. By contrast, revenue multipliers have remained broadly stable. We conclude that fiscal consolidations based on expenditure and public credit retrenchment are likely to entail a modest drag on growth in the near term.

Subject: Bank credit, Credit, Expenditure, Financial institutions, Fiscal multipliers, Fiscal policy, Money, State-owned banks

Keywords: Credit, Credit increase, Credit multiplier, Credit shock, Credit supply, Discretionary spending, Expenditure series, Fiscal multipliers, Fiscal policy, Global, Policy lending, Public credit, Revenue, Revenue multiplier, Spending increase, State-owned banks, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    16

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2016/079

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2016079

  • ISBN:

    9781484307892

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941