Budget Balance, Welfare, and the Growth Rate: "Dynamic Scoring" of the Long-Run Government Budget

Neil Bruce and Stephen J Turnovsky ()

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 1999, vol. 31, issue 2, pages 162-86

Abstract: This paper determines conditions under which a reduction in the role of government, either through a tax cut alone, or together with accompanying expenditure cuts, will improve long-run government fiscal balance. For a ceteris paribus cut in the income tax rate to improve long-run government balance, the intertemporal elasticity of substitution must exceed unity. A tax cut balanced by an expenditure cut is likely to improve the long-run balance even if it does not improve the short-run balance. The relationship between improving the long-run fiscal balance and economic welfare is also analyzed.

Date: 1999
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