Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/205689 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
New Zealand Treasury Working Paper No. 15/11
Publisher: 
New Zealand Government, The Treasury, Wellington
Abstract: 
This paper analyses long-term fiscal sustainability with a model which incorporates a number of feedback effects. When fiscal policy responds to ensure long-term sustainability, these feedback effects can potentially modify the intended outcomes by either enhancing or dampening the results of the policy interventions. The feedbacks include the effect on labour supply in response to changes in tax rates, changes in the country risk premium in response to higher public debt ratios, and endogenous changes in the rate of productivity growth and savings that respond to interest rates. A model of government revenue, expenditure and public debt which incorporates these feedbacks is used to simulate the outcome of a range of fiscal policy responses. In addition the effects of population ageing and productivity growth are explored.
JEL: 
E62
ISBN: 
978-0-478-43695-2
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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