The Role for Counter-Cyclical Fiscal Policy in Singapore

January 1, 2009

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Leif Lybecker Eskesen. The Role for Counter-Cyclical Fiscal Policy in Singapore, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2009) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

Singapore's policymakers have often used fiscal policy as a counter-cyclical tool. Empirical results based on a structural autoregression framework suggest that fiscal policy can be used for demand management, although the impact may be somewhat short lived. The short-lived impact could reflect a number of factors, including the absence of credit-constrained economic agents, a high propensity to save among households, monetary focus on price stability, and leakages due to economic openness. Notwithstanding, fiscal policy should still play a key stabilizing role in the current downturn given the downside risks to growth and the vast fiscal space.

Subject: Econometric analysis, Expenditure, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stimulus, Revenue administration, Structural vector autoregression

Keywords: Adjusted expenditure shock, Discretionary fiscal policy, Expenditure measure, Fiscal policy, Fiscal policy in Singapore, Fiscal stimulus, Global, Stimulus package, Structural vector autoregression, SVAR, Tax credit, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

18
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Series:

Working Paper No. 2009/008
Stock No:

WPIEA2009008
ISBN:

9781451871555
ISSN:

1018-5941

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