expansionary fiscal policy; however‚ in conjunction with pure economic theory‚ neither expansionary fiscal policy nor contractionary fiscal policy truly outweigh the other. Both forms of fiscal policy are used in various scenarios‚ have pros and cons‚ and correlate to “sin taxes‚” tax rebates‚ increased government spending on public goods and services‚ and decreased government budgets on two or more departments‚ whether that correlation is advantageous or disadvantageous. Contractionary fiscal policy prevails
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The Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy as Stabilization Policy Alan J. Auerbach University of California‚ Berkeley July 2005 This paper was presented at the Bank of Korea International Conference‚ The Effectiveness of Stabilization Policies‚ Seoul‚ May 2005. I am grateful to my discussants‚ Takatoshi Ito and Chung Mo Koo‚ and other conference participants for comments on an earlier draft. I. Introduction Perspectives among economists on the usefulness of fiscal policy as a device for macroeconomic
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Introduction Coca Cola‚ like any other business‚ deals with the affects of monetary policy set by the United States Federal Reserve Bank. The three tools used by the Federal Reserve to control monetary policy are the discount rate (federal funds rate)‚ open market operations (buying and selling of bonds) and the reserve ratio requirement. The following will discuss the monetary policy tools used by the Federal Reserve Bank and its affects on The Coca Cola Company and other businesses. Federal
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The U.S. economy in 2013 has a projected growth increased to an annual rate of 2.5 percent in the first quarter‚ but not enough to meet the expectations made by the economists (Aljazeera 2013). The reason why all of these projections came to be was because of disappointments that came about; plans did not follow through‚ or because of accident and uncontrollable events. For example‚ part of the acceleration in activity reflected farmers filling up silos after a drought in the summer decimated their
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Effects of the current divergent monetary policies of the Fed and ECB on FOREX and capital flows International Money 1. Introduction It’s the end of April 2011 and the world seems to be turning upside down. The current never-ending financial crisis started with bad mortgage debt‚ spread to bad bank debt‚ carried over into bad agency debt‚ and now encompasses bad sovereign debt. On top of everything‚ natural disasters like the recent Japanese earthquake are putting even more pressure on
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The Economic Impact of the President’s 2013 Budget April 2012 CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES Contents Overview How the Government’s Fiscal Policies Can Affect the Economy Fiscal Policies and Output in the Short Run Fiscal Policies and Output in the Long Run How the President’s Budgetary Proposals Would Affect the Economy Effects on the Economy Through 2017 Effects on the Economy After 2017 Economic Models and Results Estimated Economic Effects and Their Budgetary Implications Through 2017
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Fiscal Policy for reducing the unemployment rate The employment rate is quite an important variable to a country because it represents the country’s economic situation is good or bad.In order to reduce the unemployment rate‚both demand side policies and supply side policies can be used.On the demand side‚there are fiscal policy and monetary policy.While on the supply side‚there are many policies like improving labor market flexibility‚employment subsidies‚better education and training‚lower employment
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Fiscal Policy of Bangladesh regarding SME Fiscal Policy generally refers to the use of TAXATION and government expenditure to regulate the aggregate level of economic activity in a country. Fiscal policy in Bangladesh basically comprises activities‚ which the country carries out to obtain and use resources to provide services while ensuring optimum efficiency of the economic units. The policy influences the behavior of economic forces through public finance. Major objectives of the fiscal
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Chuku A. Chuku MEASURING THE EFFECTS OF MONETARY POLICY INNOVATIONS IN NIGERIA: A STRUCTURAL VECTOR AUTOREGRESSIVE (SVAR) APPROACH Chuku A. Chuku1 University of Uyo‚ Nigeria. chukuachuku@gmail.com ABSTARCT Correctly identifying the effects of monetary policy innovations is necessary for good policy making. In this paper‚ we carry out a controlled experiment using a structural vector autoregression (SVAR) model to trace the effects of monetary policy shocks on output and prices in Nigeria. We
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