Automatic Stabilizers and the Size of Government : Correcting a Common Misunderstanding /

The size of government is a commonly used variable in many analytical studies on the effects of fiscal policy. An accepted practice is to measure it as the ratio of government spending to GDP. However, this is not the correct metric when computing the stabilization effects of nondiscretionary fiscal...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Cottarelli, Carlo
مؤلفون آخرون: Fedelino, Annalisa
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2010/155
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF