Fiscal Devaluation Scenarios: A Quantitative Assessment for the Italian Economy

Abstract

We study the potential impact of fiscal devaluation poon the Italian economy using IGEM, a dynamic general equilibrium model for the Italian economy developed at the Italian Department of the Treasury. The simulations show that fiscal devaluation policies are likely to produce short-run slight improvements on the external position of the economy, while the output gains seem to persist in the long run. Non-negligible distributional effects across households are also observed, since taxation on consumption tends to be regressive.