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Fiscal policy in a Stock-Flow Consistent (SFC) model

This paper deploys a simple stock-flow consistent (SFC) model in order to examine various contentions regarding fiscal and monetary policy. It follows from the model that if the fiscal stance is not set in the appropriate fashionthat is, at a well-defined level and growth ratethen full employment and low inflation will not be achieved in a sustainable way. We also show that fiscal policy on its own could achieve both full employment and a target rate of inflation. Finally, we arrive at two unconventional conclusions: first, that an economy (described within an SFC framework) with a real rate of interest net of taxes that exceeds the real growth rate will not generate explosive interest flows, even when the government is not targeting primary surpluses; and, second, that it cannot be assumed that a debtor country requires a trade surplus if interest payments on debt are not to explode.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Working Paper ; No. 494

Classification
Wirtschaft
General Aggregative Models: Keynes; Keynesian; Post-Keynesian
Fiscal Policy
Open Economy Macroeconomics
Subject
Stock-Flow Consistency
Fiscal Policy
Public Debt
New Consensus on Monetary Economics
Current Account Deficit
Finanzpolitik
Geldpolitik
Leistungsbilanz
Auslandsverschuldung
Haushaltsdefizit
Regelgebundene Politik
Theorie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Godley, Wynne
Lavoie, Marc
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
(where)
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
(when)
2007

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  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Godley, Wynne
  • Lavoie, Marc
  • Levy Economics Institute of Bard College

Time of origin

  • 2007

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