Fiscal Policy Responiveness, Persistence and Discretion

Antonio Afonso, Luca Agnello () and Davide Furceri

No 2008/50, Working Papers Department of Economics from ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Universidade de Lisboa

Abstract: We decompose fiscal policy in three components: i) responsiveness, ii) persistence and iii) discretion. Using a sample of 132 countries, our results point out that fiscal policy tends to be more persistent than to respond to output conditions. We also found that while the effect of cross-country covariates is positive (negative) for discretion, it is negative (positive) for persistence thereby suggesting that countries with higher persistence have lower discretion and vice versa. In particular, while government size, country size and income have negative effects on the discretion component of fiscal policy, they tend to increase fiscal policy persistence.

Keywords: Fiscal Policy; Fiscal Volatility. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E62 H50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-10
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