The Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy in Stimulating Economic Activity : A Review of the Literature /

This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on the effectiveness of fiscal policy. The focus is on the size of fiscal multipliers, and on the possibility that multipliers can turn negative (i.e., that fiscal contractions can be expansionary). The paper concludes that fiscal multiplie...

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第一著者: Mahfouz, Selma
その他の著者: Hemming, Richard, Kell, Michael
フォーマット: 雑誌
言語:English
出版事項: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
シリーズ:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/208
オンライン・アクセス:Full text available on IMF
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