 Effectiveness versus reliability of policy actions under government budget constraint: the case of FranceCarlo Bianchi, Jean-Louis Brillet and Giorgio Calzolari MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany Abstract: The evaluation of policy actions by means of a large scale econometric model often begins with the analysis of multipliers. A large value of a multiplier, with the right sign, suggests that the policy instrument should be very effective in moving up or down the given target variable. However, government budget usually imposes some constraints on the policy action, so that the important criterion should not be the raw multiplier but a trade-off criterion which measures the effect of a variation of the Instrument associated with a given cost in terms of government deficit: in other words a trade-off criterion. The larger the trade-off criterion, the more effective is expected to be the policy action. Effectiveness cannot, however, be the only guideline for the decision maker. The trade-off criterion which is computed from the macroeconomic model is obviously affected by uncertainty to some extent; a criterion which appears to be strongly effective might at the same time be affected by a high degree of uncertainty as to recommend against its use. Keywords: Macroeconometric model; French economy; stochastic simulation; multipliers; trade-off criteria; budget constraint, asymptotic standard errors (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pra:mprapa:29055 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany Ludwigstraße 33, D-80539 Munich, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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