scholarly journals The Impacts of Fiscal Policy on Private Consumption and Several Social Outcomes

Author(s):  
Şaduman YILDIZ ◽  
Selim BAŞAR
1979 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 13-24

The overall pattern of changes in real expenditure and output was markedly different in 1978 from that of 1977 (see chart 1). In 1977, largely because of the undertakings given in the Letter of Intent to the IMF of December 1976, fiscal policy was deliberately restrictive. The stance of fiscal policy was made harsher still by the public expenditure shortfall produced by the operation of the relatively unfamiliar cash limits. There was a fairly small fall in public authorities' current spending and much larger falls in capital expenditures. Private consumption, too, fell as stages II and III of the pay policy operated. Trade to 6 per cent of the labour force. Retail price inflation did, however, fall fractionally from 16.5 per cent in 1976 to 15.9 per cent in 1977 (and to 13 per cent through the year).


2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. 776-781 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan A. Correa ◽  
Christian Ferrada ◽  
Pablo Gutiérrez ◽  
Francisco Parro

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-31
Author(s):  
Slah Slimani

This paper applies a multivariate neo-Keynesian DSGE model to study the effects of changes in Tunisian public spending on the business cycle, private consumption, wages, interest rate, and inflation rate in the presence of monopolistic competition and price nominal short-term rigidity. The main finding of this paper shows a Tunisian pro-cyclical fiscal policy. Expansionary public spending has two initial effects. The output increases due to the usual increase in labor supply, and aggregate demand increases due to an incomplete crowding out of private consumption. By increasing aggregate demand, the central bank increases the nominal interest rate, which moves in concert with inflation in order to counteract inflationary pressures. Households reduce their consumer spending at the same time as the real interest rate increases. Some companies are responding to the change in the interest rate by reducing their expenses, their employment demands, and their capital utilization rates.


2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (S1) ◽  
pp. 149-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger E. A. Farmer ◽  
Dmitry Plotnikov

This paper uses the old Keynesian representative agent model developed by Roger E. A. Farmer [Expectations, Employment and Prices. New York: Oxford University Press (2010)] to answer two questions: (1) Do increased government purchases crowd out private consumption? (2) Do increased government purchases reduce unemployment? Farmer compared permanent tax-financed expenditure paths and showed that the answer to (1) was yes and the answer to (2) was no. We generalize his result to temporary bond-financed paths of government purchases that are similar to the actual path that occurred during WWII. We find that a temporary increase in government purchases does crowd out private consumption expenditure as in Farmer. However, in contrast to Farmer's experiment, we find that a temporary increase in government purchases can also reduce unemployment.


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