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The Dutch experience: Assessing the welfare impacts of two consolidation strategies using a heterogeneous-agent framework

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  • Viegas, Miguel
  • Ribeiro, Ana Paula

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Between 1990 and 2010, the Dutch government pursued two successful fiscal adjustments: first, in 1995–2002, through a pure expenditure-based strategy and second, in 2004–2007, through a mixed strategy based on social transfer cuts and tax increases. In order to assess welfare and, in particular, inequality effects involved in each episode, we built a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous-agent capable of exploring the relationship between fiscal policy variables and the endogenous cross-section distribution of income, wealth and welfare.

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  • Viegas, Miguel & Ribeiro, Ana Paula, 2013. "The Dutch experience: Assessing the welfare impacts of two consolidation strategies using a heterogeneous-agent framework," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 32(C), pages 351-360.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecmode:v:32:y:2013:i:c:p:351-360
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2013.02.025
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    Keywords

    Fiscal consolidation dynamics; European Union; Heterogeneous-agent model; Netherlands; Inequality; Welfare;
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    JEL classification:

    • E17 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
    • E60 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - General
    • H60 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - General
    • I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General

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