Do Good Institutions Promote Counter-cyclical Macroeconomic Policies?

Cesar Calderon (), Roberto Duncan and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

No 3, Working Papers from Peruvian Economic Association

Abstract: The literature has argued that developing countries are unable to adopt counter-cyclical monetary and fiscal policies due to financial imperfections and unfavorable political-economy conditions. Using a world sample of 115 industrial and developing countries for 1984-2008 we find that the level of institutional quality plays a key role in countries' ability to implement counter-cyclical macroeconomic policies. The results show that countries with strong (weak) institutions adopt counter- (pro-) cyclical macroeconomic policies, re ected in extended monetary policy and fiscal policy rules. The threshold level of institutional quality at which monetary and fiscal policies are a-cyclical is found to be similar.

Keywords: Counter-cyclical macroeconomic policies; institutions; fiscal policy; monetary policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E43 E52 E62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-01
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