Arbeitspapier

On the ease of overstating the fiscal stimulus in the US, 2008-9

This note shows that the aggregate fiscal expenditure stimulus in the United States, properly adjusted for the declining fiscal expenditure of the fifty states, was close to zero in 2009. While the Federal government stimulus prevented a net decline in aggregate fiscal expenditure, it did not stimulate the aggregate expenditure above its predicted mean. We discuss the implications of limitations on states' ability to run deficits for the design of fiscal stimulus at the federal level. We devote particular attention to intertemporal moral hazard concerns in a federal fiscal system, and ways to address these concerns.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 664

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Fiscal Policy
Financial Aspects of Economic Integration
Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism; Secession
Thema
fiscal union
federal fiscal expenditure
fiscal policy
moral hazard

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Aizenman, Joshua
Pasricha, Gurnain Kaur
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of California, Economics Department
(wo)
Santa Cruz, CA
(wann)
2010

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Aizenman, Joshua
  • Pasricha, Gurnain Kaur
  • University of California, Economics Department

Entstanden

  • 2010

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