All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. Fiscales” Documento de Trabajo N° 188 Instituto de Economía PUC. (*) Mario Alloza (**)BANCO DE ESPAÑA AND CFM Documentos de Trabajo. Similarly, a 1% tax revenue shock is associated with a decline of -0.1% on GDP on the. ... 2 For example, Alesina et al. Thus, the fiscal policy is effective in promoting economic growth. ", Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús & Gordon, Grey & Guerrón-Quintana, Pablo & Rubio-Ramírez, Juan F., 2015. have become substantially weaker over time; 3) Under plausible values ", Michael T. Owyang & Valerie A. Ramey & Sarah Zubairy, 2013. ", Pragidis, I.C. dimensions; responses to fiscal shocks estimated on US data are often In these episodes, fiscal policy appears to be more accommodative, suggesting a more aggressive countercyclical fiscal In turn, non-Keynesian effects dominate in the case of public wages where cuts are expansionary and indirect taxation where raises are neutral. Higher government spending will not cause crowding out because the private sector First, if the government increases its purchases but keeps taxes constant, it increases demand directly. Cut public spending and/or increase taxes and you will cut GDP growth. ", Goemans, Pascal & Belke, Ansgar, 2019. ", Huixin Bi & Eric M. Leeper & Campbell Leith, 2013. the confidence intervals of the impulse-response function. Evidencia para una Economía Emergente, Tipo de Cambio Nominal en un Régimen de Flotación: Chile 2000-2005. But these results do not hold for countries with limited fiscal space where fiscal expansions are prevented by funding constraints. & Tsintzos, P. & Plakandaras, B., 2018. ", Sergio Restrepo-Ángel & Hernán Rincón-Castro & Juan J. Ospina-Tejeiro, 2020. Perotti, R. (2002) “Estimating the Effects of Fiscal Policy in OECD Countries” ECB. ", Bertola, Giuseppe & Drazen, Allan, 1991. If government spending follows an upward-trending stochastic process that the public believes may fall sharply when it reaches specific "trigger" points, then optimizing consumption behavior and simple budget-constraint arithmetic imply a nonlinear relationship between private consumption and government spending. & Kuester, Keith & Rubio-Ramírez, Juan Francisco, 2011. Bertola, G. and Drazen, A (1993), “Trigger points and budgets cuts: Explaining the. During these periods, aggregate demand falls as businesses and consumers cut back on their spending. ", Nicholas Bloom & Max Floetotto & Nir Jaimovich & Itay Saporta-Eksten & Stephen J. Terry, 2014. Thus fiscal policy is more effective, the steeper is the IS curve and is less effective in the case of the flatter IS curve. Confidence and the transmission of government spending shocks, Confidence and the Transmission of Government Spending Shocks, Estimation and Inference of Impulse Responses by Local Projections, Are government spending multipliers greater during periods of slack? What Fiscal Policy Is Effective at Zero Interest Rates? Several recent studies suggest that the response of national saving to fiscal policy may be non-linear. Both fiscal and monetary policy can be either expansionary or contractionary. A Brief Survey of the Literature on Fiscal Multipliers. This paper studies the impact of fiscal policy on economic activity by using Chilean annual data from 1833 to 2000. In earlier work we documented two episodes in which a sharp fiscal consolidation was associated with a very large expansions in private domestic demand. The Monetary-Fiscal Policy Mix: By making appropriate use of MP and FP instruments (policy variables) it is possible to achieve the best of both the worlds. approach. Department, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Casilla 76, Correo 17. We find that at least in the experience of these two countries the expectations' view has a serious claim to empirical relevance. Among several factors highlighted by the economic literature, we suggest that the level of the government spending undermines the importance of fiscal shocks. Cuentas Fiscales, An Empirical Characterization Of The Dynamic Effects Of Changes In Government Spending And Taxes On Output, Non-Keynesian Effects of Fiscal Policy Changes: International Evidence and the Swedish Experience, Can Severe Fiscal Contractions Be Expansionary? Monetary policy follows , and (for now) fiscal policy is perfectly correlated with the shock, that is, we consider tax cuts/increases and government spending increases/cuts that are a direct reaction to the shock, so that, in the, and The results consistently show positive government spending shocks as having a positive effect on output, and positive tax shocks as having a negative effect. ", Bachmann, Rüdiger & Sims, Eric R., 2012. ", Lawrence Christiano & Martin Eichenbaum & Sergio Rebelo, 2011. ", Neville Francis & Valerie A. Ramey, 2005. This outlook was only, reversed by the impact of both the early 1980s and late 1990s crises, mainly because of, Table 1 shows the unit root tests (ADF, PP, DF-GLS) for each series. 63 to Eggertsson (2008b), who studies the expansionary effect of the Na-tional Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) during the Great Depression. The cross-country evidence on private consumption confirms that fiscal policy changes - both contractions and expansions - can have non-Keynesian effects if they are sufficiently large and persistent, and suggests that these effects can result not only from changes in public consumption but to some extent also from changes in taxes and transfers. The procedure is to run our SVAR and to obtain the fitted, observation of our random sample each residual has a (1/T) chance of being chosen. Phone: 56-2-3547101, Fax: 56-2-5532377, e-mail: It seems possible to identify fiscal shocks. "Is Fiscal Policy More Effective in Uncertain Times or During Recessions?," Discussion Papers 1631, Centre for Macroeconomics (CFM), revised Oct 2016. In the second, we concentrate on the Swedish fiscal expansion of the early 1990s. then use this residual random sample to construct an artificial sample as in: estimate the SVAR to obtain a new impulse-response function. The most immediate effect of fiscal policy is to change the aggregate demand for goods and services. fiscal policy to unexpected movements of economic activity. Its main results can be summarized as follows: 1)The estimated effects of fiscal policy on GDP tend to be small: positive government spending multipliers larger than 1 tend to be the exception; 2) The effects of fiscal policy on GDP and its components have become substantially weaker over time; 3) Under plausible values of the price elasticity, government spending has positive effects on the price level, although usually small; 4) Government spending shocks have significant effects on the nominal and real short interest rate, but of varying signs; 5) In the post-1980 period, net tax shocks have positive short run effects on the nominal interest rate, and typically negative or zero effects on prices; 6) The US is an outlier in many dimensions; responses to fiscal shocks estimated on US data are often National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. Flotho, S. (2015). When is the government spending multiplier large? This paper studies how the composition of fiscal adjustments influences their likelihood of "success," defined as a long-lasting deficit reduction, and their macroeconomic consequences. Measuring the Output Responses to Fiscal Policy, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar (TAPES), Fiscal Policy, The Dynamic Effects of Personal and Corporate Income Tax Changes in the United States, Nonlinear adventures at the zero lower bound, Nonlinear Adventures at the Zero Lower Bound, Identifying Government Spending Shocks: It's all in the Timing, Identifying Government Spending Shocks: It's All in the Timing, Trigger Points and Budget Cuts: Explaining the Effects of Fiscal Austerity, Trigger Pointsand Budget Cuts ; Explaining the Effects of Fiscal Austerity, Fiscal Volatility Shocks and Economic Activity, Fiscal volatility shocks and economic activity. University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, What drives the short-run costs of fiscal consolidation? We find that fiscal adjustments that rely primarily on spending cuts in transfers and the government wage bill have a better chance of success and are expansionary. In the World Bank sample of developing countries, non-linearities in the response national saving to fiscal policy are not limited to large fiscal contractions, and also tend to occur in periods in which debt is accumulating rapidly, regardless of its initial level. The literature on the expectational effect of fiscal policy (for example Bertola and, Drazen 1993 and Sutherland 1995) can explain this result. Is Fiscal Policy More Effective in Uncertain Times or During Recessions? confidence intervals rely upon a 5% confidence. This error may reflect a large downward revision of permanent disposable income, which affected the consumption of Swedish households over and beyond the negative effects of the drop in real asset prices. From these results, it follows that a 1% exogenous shock to fiscal expenditure, produces a –0.17% current decrease on GDP, while a 1% shock on tax revenue produces. In particular, this sample covers a period involving tax reforms, changes in, tax incomes driven by the economic cycle and changes in the government size, measured, by government expenditure over GDP. ", Knut Are Aastveit & Gisle James Natvik & Sergio Sola, 2013. ", Bi, Huixin & Leeper, Eric M. & Leith, Campbell, 2012. From a policy perspective, our results support the smoothing role of fiscal policy on output fluctuations, which implies its capacity to restore real activity effectively in critical times like the ones currently being forecast. Two alternative identification techniques are used in the VARs to check the robustness of the results. We use, structural VAR approach, a widely used econometric tool in the literature on the, dynamic effects of fiscal policy, but generally carried out for developed economies. This article investigates to what extent these two features are interconnected and whether economic growth affects and is affected by this relationship. There is some doubt regarding the effectiveness of fiscal policy as a means of … ", Alan J. Auerbach & Yuriy Gorodnichenko, 2010. Finally, deficit-neutral policies that offset raises in public transfers, public consumption, and public investment, with raises in indirect taxes have long-term positive effects on output. From a theoretical standpoint, the results are consistent with real business cycle and Keynesian models of both traditional partial equilibrium and new general equilibrium types. like Chile and it does not depend on exogenous changes in fiscal policy. This paper studies the effects of fiscal policy on GDP, prices and Este trabajo identifica los efectos dinámicos de la política fiscal sobre la actividad económica (PIB) en Chile. Its main results can be summarized as follows: 1) effects of fiscal austerity”, American Economic Review, 11-26, March. evidence from 20th century historical data, Are Government Spending Multipliers Greater During Periods of Slack? ", Jan Philipp Fritsche & Mathias Klein & Malte Rieth, 2020. The study confirms that monetary policy is more effective than fiscal policy in determining the economy. If CitEc recognized a reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form . ", Mario Alloza & Jesus Gonzalo & Carlos Sanz, 2020. Los resultados indican que un shock positivo de gasto fiscal tiene un efecto negativo sobre el producto durante el primer trimestre; pero con posterioridad el impacto del shock fiscal se desvanece. In this paper we draw on further evidence to investigate if and when fiscal policy changes can have such non-Keynesian effects. To obtain the impulse-response functions, we write the SVAR as in: This is a useful representation, as we can easily obtain the impulse-response, To calculate the confidence intervals, we follow Runkle (1987), by using, boostrapping approach. This study presents further evidence about the lack of effectiveness of fiscal, policy over GDP as developed in the traditional keynesian framework. Fiscal policy is very effective in both directions. La din�mica, en este �ltimo caso, est� relacionada inicialmente con un super�vit fiscal que se revierte, produci�ndose un d�ficit fiscal despu�s de 12 trimestres. This result suggests that Vietnam should consider the fiscal policy as an effective policy in tackling the downturn of the economic growth. © 2008-2020 ResearchGate GmbH. This figure shows positive fiscal balances from mid-1970s, despite, the sharp increase in government expenditure from early 1990s. On the other hand, public expenditure and public revenue were used as representatives of finance policy. Fiscal policy plays a very important role in managing a country's economy. We find that government spending shocks have larger impacts on output in booms than in recessions and larger impacts during tranquil times than during uncertain times. ... Empirically, the possibility that the long-term effects of fiscal policies may differ from the Keynesian paradigm was first investigated by Giavazzi and Pagano (1990, 1996). Second, if the government cuts taxes or increases transfer payments, households disposable income rises, and they will spend more on consumption. The estimated effects of fiscal policy on GDP tend to be small: positive This paper characterizes the dynamic effects of shocks in government spending and taxes on U. S. activity in the postwar period. We discuss alternative explanations for these findings by studying a full sample of members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and by focusing on three case studies: Denmark, Ireland, and Italy. Practical implications – The authors' results support the smoothing role of fiscal policy on output fluctuations, which implies its capacity to restore real activity effectively in critical times like the ones currently being forecast. Tales of Two Small European Countries”, NBER Working Paper N°3372. ", Alan J. Auerbach & Yuriy Gorodnichenko, 2010. ", Mario Alloza & Jesús Gonzalo & Carlos Sanz, 2019. Fiscal policy is how Congress and other elected officials influence the economy using spending and taxation. 1990s, when a new political regime takes place. Our study reports further evidence on an emerging economy. The study finds evidence of non Keynesian impacts of fiscal policy. Even though stimulus spending adds to the money supply, it results in a deficit, an external debt and a rise in the interest rate. The government can bring the desired changes in r and the composition of output without shifting the demand curve, that is, without changing Y (from the demand side Y= C + I + G) at a fixed price level. RESPONSE OF ENDOGENOUS VARIABLES TO EXOGENOUS SHOCKS IN FISCAL POLICY, All figure content in this area was uploaded by Rodrigo Cerda, All content in this area was uploaded by Rodrigo Cerda on Mar 17, 2014, Standard Keynesian theory states that fiscal expenditure should impact positively, output in the short run. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ehl:lserod:86179. The authors propose and solve an optimizing model that explains counterintuitive effects of fiscal policy in terms of expectations. 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