A nexus between fiscal policy and inflation: a case study of Indonesia using SVAR model

Julie Ann Q. Basconcillo ()
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Julie Ann Q. Basconcillo: Fakultas Ekonomi dan Bisnis, Universitas Airlangga, Kampus B, Surabaya, Indonesia

Public Sector Economics, 2023, vol. 47, issue 4, 477-503

Abstract: This paper investigates the dynamic effects of changes in three different government spending components - public sector wages and purchase of goods and services, energy and other subsidies, and transfers to households - on inflation and private consumption in Indonesia from 2001:Q1 to 2022:Q4, using a non-recursive structural VAR model. The model consists of eight endogenous variables: exchange rate, output gap, tax ratio, government spending, inflation, debt ratio, interest rate, and private consumption. Structural decompositions reveal that inflation responses differ across the three government spending components. Shocks to government subsidies are more likely to lead to higher inflation than shocks to other components. But even spending on subsidies does not always have a statistically significant effect on inflation. Surprisingly, government spending shocks - aggregate or by components - do not seem to have a statistically significant impact on private consumption. The main effect of fiscal expansions may thus be a deterioration in public finances.

Keywords: fiscal policy; government spending; structural VAR; inflation; Indonesia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 E62 E63 H30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.3326/pse.47.4.5

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