The 'Expansionary Fiscal Contraction Hypothesis' and Uncertainty About the Permanence of Fiscal Consolidations
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Keywords
Expansionary fiscal contraction; fiscal consolidations; uncertainty; precautionary savings;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
- E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-PBE-2000-03-20 (Public Economics)
- NEP-POL-2000-03-20 (Positive Political Economics)
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