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| Title: | | Fiscal fragility: What the past says about the future  |
| Authors: | | Aizenman, Joshua Pasricha, Gurnain Kaur |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working Papers, UC Santa Cruz Economics Department 670 |
| Abstract: | | The end of the great moderation has profound implications on the assessment of fiscal sustainability. The pertinent issue goes beyond the obvious increase in the stock of public debt/GDP induced by the global recession, to include the neglected perspective that the vulnerabilities associated with a given public debt/GDP increase with the future volatility of key economic variables. We evaluate for a given future projected public debt/GDP, the possible distribution of the fiscal burden or the flow cost of funding debt for each OECD country, assuming that this in future decades resembles that in the past decades. Fiscal projections may be alarmist if one jumps from the priors of great moderation to the prior of permanent high future burden. Prudent adjustment for countries exposed to heightened vulnerability may entail both short term stabilization and forward looking fiscal reforms. |
| Subjects: | | flow burden of public debt fiscal vulnerability |
| JEL: | | E62 E63 E66 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Papers, Economics Department, UC Santa Cruz
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