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Post-Crisis Recovery: When Does Increased Fiscal Discipline Work?

By Pritha Mitra

October 13, 2006

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Pritha Mitra. Post-Crisis Recovery: When Does Increased Fiscal Discipline Work?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2006) accessed November 8, 2024
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Summary

Emerging market financial crises during the late 1990s were marked by sudden withdrawals of funds by foreign creditors, resulting in production declines. The IMF favored positive signals to potential foreign creditors and initially recommended disciplined fiscal policy during the height of crisis, countering standard Keynesian recommendations of expansionary fiscal stimulus. This paper formulates an open-economy general equilibrium model for resolving this policy conundrum and analyzing the impact of disciplined fiscal policy on post-crisis recovery. The model demonstrates via simulations that disciplined fiscal policy will improve (worsen) post-crisis recovery in the presence (absence) of appropriately defined production flexibility.

Subject: Collateral, Financial institutions, Fiscal policy, Labor, Public debt, Revenue administration

Keywords: Collateral, Collateral constraint, East Asia, Emerging markets, Financial crisis, Firm hire, Fiscal policy, Goods firm, Long-term debt, Physical assets, Tradable good, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    43

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2006/219

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2006219

  • ISBN:

    9781451864793

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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