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The Dangers of Targeting the Budget Deficit (1995)

In: The Reform of Macroeconomic Policy

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  • J. O. N. Perkins

    (University of Melbourne)

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The intermediate target most widely used in discussions of macroeconomic policy in many countries in recent years been the budget deficit, or in Britain the Public Sector Borrowing Requirement (the PSBR): what its level should be, and whether it should be increased, and if so by how much. This chapter considers a number of the dangers involved in this approach, looking first at some widely known objections (which are, nevertheless, almost completely ignored in most of the public discussion). It then discusses in more detail a particular set of problems that arises out of the fact that different ways of bringing about a given level, or a given change, in the budget deficit (on some definition) can have varying effects on any of the various possible fundamental objectives of macroeconomic policy.

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  • J. O. N. Perkins, 2000. "The Dangers of Targeting the Budget Deficit (1995)," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Reform of Macroeconomic Policy, chapter 9, pages 143-155, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-28873-7_9
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230288737_9
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