Emerging Market Countries Don’t Believe in Fiscal Stimuli: Should We Blame Ricardo?

Aleš Bulíø () and Andrew Swiston ()
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Aleš Bulíø: IMF Washington, http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm
Andrew Swiston: IMF Washington, http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Ales Bulir

Czech Journal of Economics and Finance (Finance a uver), 2009, vol. 59, issue 2, 153-164

Abstract: Emerging market countries had by early 2009 announced that they will have remained fiscally conservative during the 2008–09 crisis, at least compared with the developed countries, which announced much larger fiscal stimuli. The authors argue that the difference in the pre-announced fiscal stance between those two groups of countries could be at least partly due to the awareness of Ricardian equivalence, that is, a higher offset between private and public saving in emerging market countries. They find that the offset coefficient is almost twice as high in emerging market countries as in developed countries, implying that additional government spending, that is, public dissaving, would be almost completely offset by private saving.

Keywords: private saving; Ricardian equivalence; fiscal policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E21 O54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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