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Fiscal Stimulus to the Rescue? Short-Run Benefits and Potential Long-Run Costs of Fiscal Deficits

By Douglas Laxton, Dirk V Muir, Michael Kumhof, Susanna Mursula, Charles Freedman

November 1, 2009

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Douglas Laxton, Dirk V Muir, Michael Kumhof, Susanna Mursula, and Charles Freedman. Fiscal Stimulus to the Rescue? Short-Run Benefits and Potential Long-Run Costs of Fiscal Deficits, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2009) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

This paper uses the IMF's Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal Model to compute shortrun multipliers of fiscal stimulus measures and long-run crowding-out effects of higher debt. Multipliers of two-year stimulus range from 0.2 to 2.2 depending on the fiscal instrument, the extent of monetary accommodation and the presence of a financial accelerator mechanism. A permanent 0.5 percentage point increase in the U.S. deficit to GDP ratio raises the U.S. tax burden and world real interest rates in the long run, thereby reducing U.S. and rest of the world output by 0.3-0.6 and 0.2 percent, respectively.

Subject: Accommodative monetary policy, Consumption, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stimulus, Real interest rates

Keywords: Aggregate demand, External finance, Monetary policy, Real interest rate, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    40

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2009/255

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2009255

  • ISBN:

    9781451874013

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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