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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THE CASE AGAINST ACTIVE STABILIZATION POLICY Some economists argue that the government should avoid active use of monetary and fiscal policy to try to stabilize the economy. They claim that these policy instruments should be set to achieve long-run goals‚ such as rapid economic growth and low inflation‚ and that the economy should be left to deal with short-run fluctuations on its own. Although these economists may admit that monetary and fiscal policy can stabilize the economy in theory‚ they
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FISCAL POLICY AS AN ECONOMIC STABILIZATION MEASURE Fiscal Policy refers to the various decisions undertaken by the government regarding public expenditures and revenue. There are a large number of sub-policies that are encompassed by the fiscal system. But all the policies can be broadly categorized as being either ‘Public Expenditure’ or ‘Public Revenue’. It can be said that the fiscal policy is a direct government intervention in the economic processes of an economy. The fiscal policy
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THE LIMITS TO STABILIZATION POLICY A stabilization policy is an action taken to move the economy closer to full employment or potential output. Both expansionary and contractionary policies are examples of stabilization policies‚ actions to move the economy closer to full employment or potential output. It is very difficult to implement stabilization policies for two big reasons. First‚ there are lags‚ or delays‚ in stabilization policy. Lags arise because decision makers are often slow to recognize
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hyperinflation that could last for years. Several attempts to reduce inflation were sought and a nominal anchor was used namely‚ the exchange rate. Such stabilization programs were known as Exchange-Rate Based Stabilizations (ERBS). “A nominal anchor is a constraint on the value of domestic money‚ and in some form it is a necessary element in successful policy regimes” (Mishkin 1999). So a nominal anchor is needed to provide conditions that makes price levels uniquely determined‚ which in its turn is crucial
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popular rational comprehensive model or “the Root”‚ should be aware by modern policy makers. He thinks that the Muddling Through can help solve any complicated problems while confirms that the rational model can’t do that. Lindrom provides two scales representing the rational comprehensive method s and the successive limited comparisons – rational model aims to achieve perfect policy while the root targets to relative policy - ‚ and then to protect his argument‚ he refutes a model of the root with step-by-step
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implementation in the policy making process. It will describe the role that governmental agencies play in the implementation process‚ the affect that implementation has on policy‚ outline how governmental agencies affect policy through the implementation process and describe what types of factors affect policy implementation. Before addressing the previously listed issues‚ it is first necessary to describe what implementation is‚ specifically in regards to the policy making process. Policy implementation
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The Policy Process: Part I 2 In today’s society health care policies are very important. Health care policies are plans‚ actions‚ and decisions that are taken to achieve health care goals within a society or organization. Having health care policies can achieve health many things such as an outline for priorities and a vision for the future. Health care policies focus of
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Young People’s Positive Behaviour. Outcome 1: Understand policies and procedures for promoting children and young people’s positive behaviour. 1.1 Summarise the policies and procedures of the setting relevant to promoting children and young people’s positive behaviour. When managing pupil’s behaviour in school all staff will need to be aware of school policies‚ this means that the children should also be familiar with the policies and have read them so that they will understand when the
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Policy Development and Implementation(with example) Predevelopment 1. Identify issue. Issues may emerge from trends within a unit‚ through federal or state legislation or regulation‚ as a result from an incident on campus‚ or in a variety of other ways. 2. Identify responsible executive. This position is responsible for the content and accuracy of a policy. Different offices can own pieces of the policy or procedures‚ and one individual carries the overall responsibility. If disputes
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