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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主要作者: Mahfouz, Selma
其他作者: Hemming, Richard, Kell, Michael
格式: 雜誌
語言:English
出版: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
叢編:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/208
在線閱讀:Full text available on IMF