Fiscal stimulus and the promise of future spending cuts

Volker Wieland

No 7615, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: Recent evaluations of the fiscal stimulus packages enacted in 2009 in the United States and Europe such as Cogan, Cwik, Taylor and Wieland (2009) and Cwik and Wieland (2009) suggest that the GDP effects will be modest due to crowding-out of private consumption and investment. Corsetti, Meier and Mueller (2009a,b) argue that spending shocks are typically followed by consolidations with substantive spending cuts, which enhance the short-run stimulus effect. This note investigates the implications of this argument for the estimated impact of recent stimulus packages and the case for discretionary fiscal policy.

Keywords: Discretionary fiscal policy; Fiscal multiplier; Fiscal stimulus; Government spending; Macroeconomic modeling; New keynesian model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C52 E62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-12
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