Macroeconomic effects of fiscal consolidation on economic activity in SSA countries

This paper studies the effects of fiscal measures in 40 sub-Saharan countries on economic output, unemployment, consumption, private investment, REER, and current account balance. The study estimates impulse response functions with local projections, based on a yearly dataset covering 40 countries o...

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Bibliográfiai részletek
Szerzők: Woldu Gabriel Temesgen
Szakálné Kanó Izabella
Dokumentumtípus: Cikk
Megjelent: 2023
Sorozat:THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ASYMMETRIES 28
Tárgyszavak:
doi:10.1016/j.jeca.2023.e00312

mtmt:36286812
Online Access:http://publicatio.bibl.u-szeged.hu/37703
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520 3 |a This paper studies the effects of fiscal measures in 40 sub-Saharan countries on economic output, unemployment, consumption, private investment, REER, and current account balance. The study estimates impulse response functions with local projections, based on a yearly dataset covering 40 countries over 2000–2019. The key variable in the dataset is a measure of fiscal stance computed following Blanchard (1993), with a threshold of 1.5%. The study finds that in the short run, fiscal consolidation reduces real GDP and private demand. In addition, the current account balance responds positively to a shock in fiscal consolidation, whereas the real effective exchange rate responds negatively. Moreover, compared with revenue-based consolidations, spending-based consolidations lead to smaller losses in output. Our finding also reveals that fiscal consolidations also depend on economic cycles, with a lower output loss during an economic boom. Finally, this study suggests that fiscal consolidations should be carried out based on spending-based consolidations and have to be preceded by an economic boom. © 2023 The Authors 
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