La respuesta de la política fiscal a la actividad económica en los países desarrollados

Abstract

This paper studies how discretional fiscal policy has reacted to economic fluctuations in a group of OCDE countries during the last four decades. Following the recent literature, we use the cyclically adjusted primary balance as a tool to identify government fiscal activity. The results suggest a limited use of fiscal policy in expansion or recession circumstances just as a marked activity in economic stability situations. The reasons behind this performance barely conventional will be examined; we analyze the different responses of taxes and expenditures, pay attention to the importance of fiscal policy at the beginning and evaluate the monetary policy accommodation.