## Abstract The supply of external financing to developing countries generally tends to increase in periods when export earnings are booming and thus, in periods of increasing government revenues. Conversely, Stabex and IMF Compensatory Financing transfers are primarily designed to take place in re
Financing fiscal policy: a sensitivity analysis
β Scribed by Franklin R. Shupp
- Book ID
- 103087191
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 938 KB
- Volume
- 312
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-0032
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β¦ Synopsis
It has been realized for some time that the eflectiveness of fiscal policy is sensitive to the means of financing that policy. More particularly, expansionary fiscal policy financed by money creation is known to be more eficient than the same fiscal action financed by bond sales. This study uses both simulation and optimal control experiments to demonstrate that when only plausible financing arragnements are considered the effectiveness of fiscal policy is far less sensitive to the form of finance than previously believed.
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