Effects of Fiscal Policy on Agriculture and the Rural Economy

John Kitchen () and David Orden

No 278556, Staff Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: We found little evidence in the literature regarding fiscal policy to support a relationship between deficits, interest rates, and exchange rates. We present some empirical evidence suggesting that real growth, the trade balance, and soybean prices are affected by Federal budget deficits. However, fiscal policy seems less important than monetary policy in the determination of real activity and interest rates. Fiscal policy is also less important than monetary policy--or commodity-specific production, use, and stocks--in the determination of agricultural commodity prices. Simulation results suggest that fiscal policy changes do not have significantly different effects on the nonmetro unemployment rate relative to the total civilian unemployment rate.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Financial Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33
Date: 1991-06
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.278556

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