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Title: Searching for Non-Linear Effects of Fiscal Policy: Evidence from Industrial and Developing Countries

Author(s): Francesco Giavazzi, Tullio Jappelli and Marco Pagano

Publication Date: February 2000

Keyword(s): Fiscal Policy and National Saving

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics

Abstract: Several recent studies imply that the response of national saving to fiscal policy is non-monotonic. In this paper, we use two data sets to search for the circumstances in which such non-monotonic responses arise: one refers to a sample of OECD countries, as in previous studies, and one to a sample of developing countries, using recent World Bank data. We find that in both samples non-monotonic effects tend to be associated with large and persistent fiscal impulses. In the OECD such responses are stronger for fiscal contractions than for fiscal expansions: during large fiscal contractions an increase in net taxes has no effect on national saving. High or rapidly growing public debt does not appear to be a good predictor of non-monotonic effects. Using the World Bank data, the situations in which the non-monotonic response of national saving to fiscal policy are not limited to large fiscal contractions. They also occur during large fiscal expansions, and in periods in which debt is accumulating rapidly, regardless of its initial level.

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Giavazzi, F, Jappelli, T and Pagano, M. 2000. 'Searching for Non-Linear Effects of Fiscal Policy: Evidence from Industrial and Developing Countries'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=2374