Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Policies: Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh, People's Republic of China, Indonesia, and Philippines

Geoffrey Ducanes, Marie Anne Cagas (), Duo Qin, Pilipinas Quising () and Mohammad Abdur Razzaque ()
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Marie Anne Cagas: Asian Development Bank
Pilipinas Quising: Asian Development Bank
Mohammad Abdur Razzaque: University of Dhaka

No 85, ADB Economics Working Paper Series from Asian Development Bank

Abstract: Fiscal expansion in Bangladesh, the People's Republic of China, Indonesia, and the Philippines via increased spending is typically more effective than fiscal expansion via tax rate reduction for stimulating growth. On the other hand, the effectiveness of expenditure versus tax-side automatic stabilizers differs across countries. This paper studies the macroeconomic effects of fiscal policies in four Asian countries—Bangladesh, the People's Republic of China, Indonesia, and the Philippines—by means of structural macroeconometric model simulations. It is found that short-term fiscal multipliers from an untargeted increase in government expenditure are positive but much less than those from an increased expenditure targeted to capital spending. The multiplier effects from fiscal expansion via a tax rate reduction are found to be typically much less than through higher spending. The effectiveness of automatic stabilizers in general, and more specifically, the effectiveness of expenditure versus tax-side stabilizers, differs across countries.

Keywords: fiscal expansion; macroeconomic effects; tax rate reduction; automatic stabilizers; targeted spending (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 E62 H30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2006-11-01
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