Download or read book Analytical and Methodological Issues in the Measurement of Fiscal Deficits written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1990-11-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and national and international economic developments.
Download or read book Analytical and Methodological Issues in the Measurement of Fiscal Deficits written by Mario Israel BLEJER and published by . This book was released on with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Analytical and methodological issues in the measurement of fiscal deficits written by Mario I.; Cheasty Blejer (Adrienne) and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The measurement of fiscal deficits analytical and methodological issues written by Mario I. Blejer and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Measure the Fiscal Deficit written by Mario I I Bl Jer and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1993 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiscal policy seeks to equilibrate the public sector's financing needs with the private sector's demand for investment and a sustainable balance of payments. Correct measurement of the public sector's net use of resources is therefore an important prerequisite for managing the macroeconomy. This volume, edited by Mario I. Blejer and Adrienne Cheasty, is organized around four issues: the adequacy of summary measures of the fiscal deficit, conventional and adjusted deficits, coverage (size) of the public sector, and the public sector's intertemporal budget constraint.
Download or read book Measurement of Fiscal Impact written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1988-06-16 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper describes methodological issues pertaining to measurement of fiscal impact. The fiscal deficit is, under any circumstances, a crude tool for assessing the impact of fiscal policy on the economy. This paper also analyzes various ways in which the conventional definition of the fiscal deficit is affected by high rates of inflation. It has shown that, as the rate of inflation rises, the picture emerging from the conventional measure may, under certain circumstances, become somewhat blurred since the conventional measure may magnify the size of the fiscal adjustment that a country need. In fact, the size of the debt service that compensates bondholders for the reduction in the real value of their assets arising from inflation should be made explicit so as to indicate that part of the deficit whose impact depends mainly on portfolio decisions regarding the public's demand for government bonds, and on the potential effects of these bonds on the monetary and liquidity conditions of the economy.
Download or read book Fiscal Impulse written by Mr.Mark Scott Lutz and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1991-09-01 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of fiscal impulse is defined, discussed, and differentiated from measures that attempt to summarize the macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy. Two methodologies are briefly discussed and their corresponding measures presented for the G-7 countries over the ten-year period ending in 1989. Controversies about the measure are highlighted and potential improvements are also discussed.
Download or read book Multiannual Macroeconomic Programming Techniques for Developing Economies written by Paul Beckerman and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Introduction. 1.1. Macroeconomic programming exercises. 1.2. The projection exercise, in summary. 1.3. Uses of multiannual macroeconomic programming exercises. 1.4. Macroeconomic "consistency" analysis. 1.5. Programming assumptions. 1.6. Pacífica's macroeconomy. 1.7. The book's structure -- 2. Overview of the projection procedure. 2.1. The projection procedure. 2.2. Programming assumptions. 2.3. National-accounts projections. 2.4. External-accounts projections. 2.5. Fiscal-accounts projections. 2.6. Monetary-accounts projections. 2.7. Consistency relationships among the national, external, fiscal and monetary accounts projections. 2.8. Concluding observations on the solution procedure -- 3. Basic programming variables. 3.1. Introduction : Basic programming variables. 3.2. Gross domestic product and its growth rate. 3.3. The price level and the exchange rate. 3.4. Sectors and sub-sectors of the gross domestic product. 3.5. Central-bank international-reserve holdings. 3.6. Population and labor force. 3.7. Algebraic relationships among year-average and year-end GDP, price indices, and exchange rates. 3.8. Basic macroeconomic programming variables for "Pacífica" -- 4. Programming variables : Non-interest government expenditure. 4.1. Introduction : Non-interest government-expenditure projections. 4.2. Non-interest current-expenditure projections. 4.3. Capital and other non-recurrent expenditure. 4.4. Pacífica's government expenditure -- 5. Programming variables : external debt and internal government debt. 5.1. Programming external and internal debt. 5.2. External-debt programming techniques. 5.3. External debt-rescheduling and -reduction concepts. 5.4. Debt-reduction concepts associated with the Highly-Indebted Poorest Countries initiative. 5.5. Projections of internal government debt and financial assets. 5.6. Pacífica's external and internal debt -- 6. National-expenditure accounts projections. 6.1. Introduction : national-expenditure accounts projections. 6.2. Capital formation and real-GDP growth. 6.3. Inventory holdings. 6.4. Exports and imports of goods and non-factor services. 6.5. Government capital formation and consumption. 6.6. Non-government capital formation and consumption. 6.7. National-accounts projections for "Pacífica" -- 7. External-accounts projections. 7.1. Introduction: External-accounts projections. 7.2. Balance-of-payments projections. 7.3. Reconciling above- and below-the-line balance-of-payments projections. 7.4. External-accounts projections for "Pacífica" -- 8. Fiscal-accounts projections. 8.1. Introduction : financing the fiscal-expenditure flow. 8.2. Government-revenue projections. 8.3. Reconciling above- and below-the-line fiscal projections. 8.4. Taking account of disaggregated public-sector entities. 8.5. Fiscal-accounts projections for "Pacífica" -- 9. Monetary-accounts projections. 9.1. Introduction : monetary-accounts projections. 9.2. Monetary policy consistent with a given macroeconomic program. 9.3. Central-bank capitalization and decapitalization flows. 9.4. Projecting commercial-bank performance. 9.5. Consolidated monetary accounts. 9.6. Monetary-accounts projections for "Pacífica" -- 10. Practical programming and projection issues. 10.1. Introduction : practical programming and projection issues. 10.2. Setting up a macroeconomic projection exercise : data, assumptions, and presentation of results. 10.3. Setting projection assumptions. 10.4. Multiannual macroeconomic projection analysis in government budget-processing cycles. 10.5. Sensitivity analysis. 10.6. Sensitivity analysis for "Pacífica". 10.7. Sensitivity analysis involving debt-reduction exercises. 10.8. A concluding note.
Download or read book EBOOK Macroeconomics written by Rudiger Dornbusch and published by McGraw Hill. This book was released on 2014-02-16 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dornbusch, Fischer, and Startz has been a long-standing, leading intermediate macroeconomic theory text since its introduction in 1978. This revision retains most of the text's traditional features, including a middle-of-the-road approach and very current research, while updating and simplifying the exposition. A balanced approach explains both the potential and limitations of economic policy. Macroeconomics employs a model-based approach to macroeconomic analysis and demonstrates how various models are connected with the goal of giving students the capacity to analyze current economic issues in the context of an economic frame of reference. The only pre-requisite continues to be principles of economics.
Download or read book Government Guarantees written by Timothy Irwin and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book considers when governments should give guarantees to private investors. After describing the history of guarantees, and the challenges the politics and psychology create for good decisions, the book sets out a principles for allocating risk (and therefore guarantees), techniques for valuing guarantees, and rules to encourage good decisions.
Download or read book Research in Economic History written by Alexander J. Field and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume includes six papers in quantitative economic history. Peter Mancall, Josh Rosenbloom, and Tom Weiss consider growth in colonial North America, while Gary Richardson examines the role of bank failures in propagating the Great Depression. John Komlos examines the heights of rich and poor youth in England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Klas Fregert and Roger Gustafson provide a synoptic view of public finances in Sweden from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Drew Keeling studies the economics of the steamship industry that facilitated migration between Europe and the United States between 1900 and 1914. Finally, Gregg Huff and Giovanni Caggiano examine the integration of labor markets in Southeast Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It includes original articles written by experts on the subjects and articles supported by quantitative data.
Download or read book Accounting Devices and Fiscal Illusions written by Timothy Irwin and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2012-03-28 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proposed SDN surveys the various accounting stratagems which governments have used to meet fiscal targets—thereby sidestepping the need for true adjustment—and suggests remedial actions to limit this type of fiscal non-transparency. Types of creative accounting covered includes, for instance, currency swaps to hide a debt build-up (as in Greece in 2001–07), sale and leaseback of government property (for example, in the United States), assumption of long-term pension obligations in exchange for short-term revenue (Argentina, Hungary, and other Eastern European countries), use of public-private partnerships to defer the recognition of investment spending (for instance, Portugal), and reliance on non-cash compensation (such as pension rights) to reduce measured wage bills (in the United States, United Kingdom, etc.) As is evident from the examples given, these fiscal tricks have recently come under increased international scrutiny, highlighting the importance of good fiscal reporting, accounting, and transparency in general, for avoiding unpleasant surprises, ensuring government accountability, and containing fiscal vulnerabilities.
Download or read book The Macroeconomics of Financing Government Expenditure written by Ramkishen S. Rajan and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book surveys the main issues relating to the static macroeconomic consequences of the government budget constraint, that is, the effects of alternative sources of financing government expenditure on macroeconomic variables such as inflation, exchange rates, interest rates, national output, private savings and investment. Government expenditure is constrained by available sources of finance, broadly divided into internal and external sources. The study advocates a judicious balance between the alternative sources for the financing mix to be adequate as well as consistent with macroeconomic stability."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Market Discipline written by Mr.Timothy D. Lane and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1992-06-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under what circumstances can market forces prevent unsustainable borrowing? Effective market discipline requires that capital markets be open, that; information on the borrower’s existing liabilities be readily available, that no bailout be anticipated, and that the borrower respond to market signals. This paper explores the implications of these conditions, and reviews some relevant empirical evidence.
Download or read book The Global Debt Bomb written by James L. Clayton and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2000 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive multidisciplinary analysis covers all aspects of debt - benefits and necessity; the impact (both good and bad) on individuals, corporations and governments; and lessons to be learned from the past.
Download or read book Government at Risk written by Hana Polackova Brixi and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many governments have faced serious instability as a result of their contingent liabilities. But conventional public finance analysis and institutions fail to address such fiscal risks. This book aims to provide motivation and practical guidance to governments seeking to improve their management of fiscal risks. The book addresses some of the difficult analytical and institutional challenges that face reformers tooling up to manage government fiscal risks. It discusses the inadequacies of conventional practices as well as recent advances in dealing with fiscal risk.
Download or read book Argentina written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Argentina has reformed its public finance system and reversed years of economic decline and deficit spending. This study recommends policy options to speed the already impressive progress. These options would expand the ambitious reform program already under way. This study shows how to sustain balanced public finances over the medium term. It describes ways to sustain price stability and economic growth while providing a cushion against unexpected downturns. Also examined are ways to improve social services while reducing the size of government. Researchers discuss key reforms that could boost the fiscal surplus by as much as 1.4 percent of gross domestic product. They look at ways to build tax revenues, reduce provincial finances, and make social security more equitable. They review methods to cut defense spending and revive a moribund education system. Additional policy options offered are reforms for housing and welfare programs and pension fund investments. The study suggests ways to improve the legal framework for a stronger central bank. Also reviewed are ways to eliminate unnecessary administrative agencies and to privatize public enterprises. The government's new health insurance program is examined. This program offers universal coverage. It lets contributors choose providers and includes subsidies for those who can't pay. It also requires a minimum package of health care at a set price.
