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Fiscal Stimulus with Spending Reversals

By Gernot Müller, Giancarlo Corsetti, Andre Meier

May 1, 2009

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Gernot Müller, Giancarlo Corsetti, and Andre Meier. Fiscal Stimulus with Spending Reversals, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2009) accessed October 10, 2024
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Summary

The impact of fiscal stimulus depends not only on short-term tax and spending policies, but also on expectations about offsetting measures in the future. This paper analyzes the effects of an increase in government spending under a plausible debt-stabilizing policy that links current stimulus to a subsequent period of spending restraint. Accounting for such spending reversals brings an otherwise standard new Keynesian model in line with the stylized facts of fiscal transmission, including the crowding-in of consumption and the 'puzzle' of real exchange rate depreciation. Time series evidence for the U.S. supports the empirical relevance of spending reversals.

Subject: Expenditure, Fiscal policy, Long term interest rates, Real exchange rates, Real interest rates

Keywords: Interest rate, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    39

  • Volume:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2009/106

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2009106

  • ISBN:

    9781451872538

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941