Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/205452 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
New Zealand Treasury Working Paper No. 01/11
Publisher: 
New Zealand Government, The Treasury, Wellington
Abstract: 
The Fiscal Responsibility Act 1994 states that, as a principle of responsible fiscal management, a New Zealand government should ensure total Crown debt is at a prudent level by ensuring total operating expenses do not exceed total operating revenues. In this paper a structural VAR model is estimated to evaluate the impact on the government's cash operating surplus (or budget balance) of four independent disturbances: supply, fiscal, real private demand, and nominal disturbances. Based on the distribution of these disturbances, stochastic simulations are undertaken to derive the level of the ex ante cash budget balance needed to achieve an actual cash budget balance, at a given level of probability, at some future time horizon.
Subjects: 
Budget target
Fiscal policy
Fiscal Responsibility Act
Structural VAR
Stochastic Simulation
JEL: 
C51
E62
H61
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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