2021-5-28 · DOI 10.3386/w9306. Issue Date November 2002. This paper reviews the state of discretionary fiscal policy. Among its findings are (1) In recent years U.S. discretionary fiscal policy appears to have become more active in response to both cyclical conditions and a simple measure of budget balance. (2) Considerable uncertainty remains about how
2017-2-28 · Reassessing Discretionary Fiscal Policy John B. Taylor I n 1992 President Bush proposed legislation intended to speed up the recovery from the 1990-91 recession. Congress rejected this proposal for countercyclical fiscal policy stimulus. In early 1993 President Clinton proposed his own stimulus package but Congress rejected this proposal too.
2017-2-28 · Reassessing Discretionary Fiscal Policy John B. Taylor I n 1992 President Bush proposed legislation intended to speed up the recovery from the 1990-91 recession. Congress rejected this proposal for countercyclical fiscal policy stimulus. In early 1993 President Clinton proposed his own stimulus package but Congress rejected this proposal too.
2017-1-27 · The discretionary fiscal effort an assessment of fiscal policy and its output effect (621 kB) This paper presents an indicator of the fiscal stance that combines features of the bottom-up narrative approach on the revenue side with a refined version of the top-down traditional approach of the structural balance on the expenditure side.
2017-2-28 · Reassessing Discretionary Fiscal Policy John B. Taylor I n 1992 President Bush proposed legislation intended to speed up the recovery from the 1990-91 recession. Congress rejected this proposal for countercyclical fiscal policy stimulus. In early 1993 President Clinton proposed his own stimulus package but Congress rejected this proposal too.
Discretionary fiscal policy is so named because it A) is undertaken at the option of the nation s central bank. B) occurs automatically as the nation s level of GDP changes. C) involves specific changes in T and G undertaken expressly for stabilization at the option of Congress. D) is invoked secretly by the Council of Economic Advisers.
Countercyclical discretionary fiscal policy calls for -deficits during recessions and surpluses during periods of demand-pull inflation The group of three economists appointed by the president to provide fiscal policy recommendations is the -Council of Economic Advisers An appropriate fiscal policy for a severe recession is -a decrease in tax rates
2018-6-1 · Discretionary fiscal policies should be avoided by the government.
2010-1-30 · Reassessing Discretionary Fiscal Policy John B. Taylor n 1992 President Bush proposed legislation intended to speed up the recovery from the 1990-91 recession. Congress rejected this proposal for countercyclical fiscal policy stimulus. In early 1993 President Clinton proposed his own stimulus package but Congress rejected this proposal too.
2020-6-2 · This paper analyses discretionary fiscal responses as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic with a focus on measures directed towards business. By fiscal responses we mean direct adjustments to taxes remitted by business or the award of subsidies to business.
The discretionary fiscal policy is a type of change in the government spending level or the change in the level of taxes so that the economy can shrink or expand as needed to make it progressive.
A discretionary fiscal policy is a monetary policy that is created and initiated by a government entity as a means of dealing with events and trends that are taking place in the economy. Typically the idea behind this type of policy is to deliberately impact that trend gradually moving the economy in a direction that is esteemed by government
2010-2-19 · In this paper we first discuss the pros and cons of discretionary fiscal policy from a history of economic thought perspective. Next we summarise the fiscal policy measures taken in Switzerland. Then we use simulations with the KOF macroeconomic model to assess the effects on the Swiss economy of a) the Swiss measures on the one hand and b
2015-8-8 · There is no clear-cut evidence on how the adoption of the European fiscal standards influences discretionary fiscal policies within the Member States. This study investigates that phenomenon on the example of the 2004 enlargement. The results show that the effects of the adoption of EU fiscal rules bring a statistically significant change toward more counter-cyclical behavior.
Political Realties and Discretionary Fiscal Policy A final problem for discretionary fiscal policy arises out of the difficulties of explaining to politicians how countercyclical fiscal policy that runs against the tide of the business cycle should work.
2016-3-18 · Fiscal developments Assessing current calls for a discretionary fi scal stimulus A discretionary scal policy attempting to fi fi ne tune the economy can have stabilising effects but the size of the effect tends to vary depending on several factors and is generally assessed to
2013-5-1 · discretionary fiscal policy might have an appropriate stabilization role but 6 this role would be limited to a period of at most two years until deleveraging rebalancing and price adjustment proceeded far enough to bring an end to the liquidity trap and an exit from the zero lower bound on
Discretionary fiscal policy and prediction errors The second step of the empirical analysis consists in investigating the relationship between discretionary fiscal policy and prediction errors on non-cyclical growth. From the discussion in section 2 we expect that the combination of forecast errors and inertia should give rise to a negative
2013-5-1 · discretionary fiscal policy might have an appropriate stabilization role but 6 this role would be limited to a period of at most two years until deleveraging rebalancing and price adjustment proceeded far enough to bring an end to the liquidity trap and an exit from the zero lower bound on
2010-1-30 · Reassessing Discretionary Fiscal Policy John B. Taylor n 1992 President Bush proposed legislation intended to speed up the recovery from the 1990-91 recession. Congress rejected this proposal for countercyclical fiscal policy stimulus. In early 1993 President Clinton proposed his own stimulus package but Congress rejected this proposal too.
2021-5-28 · DOI 10.3386/w9306. Issue Date November 2002. This paper reviews the state of discretionary fiscal policy. Among its findings are (1) In recent years U.S. discretionary fiscal policy appears to have become more active in response to both cyclical conditions and a simple measure of budget balance. (2) Considerable uncertainty remains about how
2020-1-9 · The FY2020 Discretionary Budget. Though the US fiscal year runs from October 1 to September 30 the federal budget process which is a 9-step plan begins every fall. Traditionally the budget process begins with all the federal agencies submitting their budget proposals to the Office of Management and Budget which manages the president s budget.
Reassessing Discretionary Fiscal Policy by John B. Taylor. Published in volume 14 issue 3 pages 21-36 of Journal of Economic Perspectives Summer 2000 Abstract Recent changes in policy research and in policy-making call for a reassessment of countercyclical fiscal policy. Such a reassessment ind
The discretionary fiscal policy is a type of change in the government spending level or the change in the level of taxes so that the economy can shrink or expand as needed to make it progressive.
This study investigates the effects of discretionary fiscal policy and fiscal credibility on the inflation risk premium. Using a modern Fisher equation we calculate the inflation risk premia to four different maturities as well as to the first principal component of these maturities.