Research Catalog

Title

Suggestions for a New Set of Fiscal Indicators [electronic resource] / Olivier Blanchard

Author

Blanchard, Olivier.

Publication

Paris : OECD Publishing, 1990.

Details

Description

37 p.; 21 x 29.7cm.

Summary

There are four sets of questions that fiscal indicators can help answer: (1) Of the changes in the fiscal position, what part is due to changes in the economic environment and what part is due to policy? (2) Can the current course of fiscal policy be sustained, or will the government have to adjust taxes or spending? (3) What is the effect of fiscal policy on activity, through its effects on relative prices, be it the price of labour or the price of capital? (4) What is the macroeconomic impact of fiscal policy, through deficit and debt finance?This paper is one of three in this Working Paper Series, along with those by Chouraqui et al. and Gramlich, in which the assessment of fiscal policy is reconsidered. It argues that no single indicator can give even rough answers to all those questions. It then develops four (sets of) indicators, aimed at answering each of the questions ...

Series Statement

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.79

Uniform Title

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, no.79.

Subject

Economics

LCCN

10.1787/435618162862

OCLC

oecd-lib-004282

Author

Blanchard, Olivier.

Title

Suggestions for a New Set of Fiscal Indicators [electronic resource] / Olivier Blanchard

Imprint

Paris : OECD Publishing, 1990.

Series

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.79

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.79.

Connect to:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/435618162862

Indexed Term

Economics

Other Standard Identifier

10.1787/435618162862 doi