Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Fiscal Policy Shocks in China

Ji Jia ()
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Ji Jia: Chinese Academy of Fiscal Sciences, Beijing, China

Statistics, Politics and Policy, 2021, vol. 12, issue 2, 395-412

Abstract: The central issues concerning fiscal policy makers include macroeconomic stability and growth stimulation. The policy decision process is facilitated by investigation on the effects of fiscal policy, such as a change in government spending or taxes on macroeconomic variables comprising inflation, aggregate output, and interest rates. Build on the Blanchard-Perotti identification approach, this paper empirically analyses the influence of fiscal policy to aggregate economic activities in China, and the estimated results are compared between China and the advanced economies. The findings demonstrate that the impulse responses incurred by tax shocks are generally stimulative, although government spending shocks tend to be neutral, revealing meaningful implications for the fiscal space and policy design.

Keywords: counter cyclical policy; impulse response; macroeconomic stabilization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E62 H30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1515/spp-2021-0013

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