Boom-Bust Phases in Asset Prices and Fiscal Policy Behavior

Albert Jaeger and Ludger Schuknecht

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2007, vol. 43, issue 6, 45-66

Abstract: Boom and bust phases in asset prices have become a pervasive feature of macroeconomic developments in many advanced economies. This paper studies fiscal policy during boom-bust phases in asset prices and draws several conclusions. First, expansions and contractions in economic activity during such boom-bust phases tend to be highly persistent, cyclical turning points are harder to forecast, and the margins of error for output gap estimates can be large. Second, conventional estimates of revenue elasticities seem not to allow an accurate assessment of fiscal stance or the strength of underlying fiscal positions during boom-bust phases. Third, boom-bust phases tend to exacerbate already existing procyclical policy biases, as well as political-economy biases, toward higher spending and public-debt ratios.

Keywords: asset prices; boom-bust cycles; cyclical adjustment; deficit bias; fiscal policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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