Fiscal Activism in Booms, Busts, and Beyond

This paper discusses activist fiscal policies during good times, the crisis period and for the post-crisis period. The study argues, first, that fi scal policies were overly imprudent during the boom phase preceding the crisis. This was due to excessive expenditure growth and problems with measuring...

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Main Author: Schuknecht, Ludger
Format: Online
Language:eng
Published: Instituto de Economía y Finanzas. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Universidada Nacional de Córdoba. 2010
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Online Access:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/REyE/article/view/3872