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Title: Restraining Yourself: Fiscal Rules and Stabilization

Author(s): Tamim Bayoumi and Barry Eichengreen

Publication Date: September 1994

Keyword(s): Fiscal Restraints and Fiscal Stabilization

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics

Abstract: State budgets in the United States played a significant macroeconomic role in the 1970s and 1980s, and the level of cyclical responsiveness was affected by the severity of statutory and constitutional fiscal restraints. Moving from no fiscal restraints to the most stringent restraints lowered the fiscal offset to income fluctuations by around 40%. Simulations indicate that a reduction in aggregate fiscal stabilizers of this size could lead to a significant increase in the variance of aggregate output.

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Bayoumi, T and Eichengreen, B. 1994. 'Restraining Yourself: Fiscal Rules and Stabilization'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=1029