Fiscal Spillovers: The Importance of Macroeconomic and Policy Conditions in Transmission

Patrick Blagrave, Giang Ho, Ksenia Koloskova and Esteban Vesperoni

No 2017/002, IMF Spillover Notes from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: Are fiscal spillovers today as large as they were during the global financial crisis? How do they depend on economic and policy conditions? This note informs the debate on the cross-border impact of fiscal policy on economic activity, shedding light on the magnitude and the factors affecting transmission, such as the fiscal instruments used, cyclical positions, monetary policy conditions, and exchange rate regimes. The note assesses spillovers from five major advanced economies (France, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, United States) on 55 advanced and emerging market economies that represent 85 percent of global output, looking at government-spending and tax revenue shocks during expansion and consolidation episodes. It finds that fiscal spillovers are economically significant in the presence of slack and/or accommodative monetary policy—and considerably smaller otherwise, which suggests that spillovers are large when domestic multipliers are also large. It also finds that spillovers from government-spending shocks are larger and more persistent than those from tax shocks and that transmission may be stronger among countries with fixed exchange rates. The evidence suggests that although spillovers from fiscal policies in the current environment may not be as large as they were during the crisis, they may still be important under certain economic circumstances.

Keywords: SN; exchange rate; government spending; economic activity; expenditure switching; source country; recipient country; government spending shock; euro area; Spillovers; Interest rate floor; Exchange rate arrangements; Global; Europe; Asia and Pacific (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31
Date: 2017-10-18
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