Arbeitspapier

An estimated fiscal Taylor rule for the postwar United States

This paper documents the systematic response of postwar U.S. fiscal policy to fiscal imbalances and the business cycle using a multivariate Fiscal Taylor Rule. Adjustments to taxes and purchases both account for a large portion of the fiscal response to debt, while authorities seem reluctant to adjust transfers. As expected, taxes are highly procyclical; purchases are acyclical; and transfers are countercyclical. Neither pattern has changed much over time, except that adjustment happens more slowly after 1981 than before 1980. The role of adjustments to purchases in stabilizing the debt indicates that the recent discussion about spending reversals is highly relevant.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 1705

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Fiscal Policy
Comparative or Joint Analysis of Fiscal and Monetary Policy; Stabilization; Treasury Policy
Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General
National Deficit; Surplus
Thema
Spending reversals
Fiscal Taylor Rule
deficits
fiscal policy
taxes
spending
transfer payments
Finanzpolitik
Taylor-Regel
Konjunktur
Schätzung
USA

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Reicher, Christopher Phillip
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
(wo)
Kiel
(wann)
2011

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Reicher, Christopher Phillip
  • Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)

Entstanden

  • 2011

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