The Fiscal Smile : The Effectiveness and Limits of Fiscal Stabilizers /

We study the smoothing impact of fiscal stabilizers (proxied by government expenditures or revenues) on business cycle volatility for a panel of EU countries in the period 1970-99. The results show that the business cycle volatility smoothing effect of fiscal stabilizers may revert at high levels. W...

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Auteur principal: Silgoner, Maria
Autres auteurs: Crespo-Cuaresma, Jesus, Reitschuler, Gerhard
Format: Revue
Langue:English
Publié: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003.
Collection:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2003/182
Accès en ligne:Full text available on IMF