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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المؤلف الرئيسي: Mahfouz, Selma
مؤلفون آخرون: Hemming, Richard, Kell, Michael
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/208
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF