Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Stability : Automatic Stabilizers Work, Always and Everywhere /

The paper revisits the link between fiscal policy and macroeconomic stability. Two salient features of our analysis are (1) a systematic test for the government's ambivalent role as a shock absorber and a shock inducer-removing a downward bias present in existing estimates of the impact of auto...

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1. Verfasser: Debrun, Xavier
Weitere Verfasser: Kapoor, Radhicka
Format: Zeitschrift
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010.
Schriftenreihe:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2010/111
Online Zugang:Full text available on IMF