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Forecasting organizations are finally admitting that they underestimated the
fiscal
multiplier.
The effect of underestimating the
fiscal
multiplier has been systematic misjudgment of the damage that “fiscal consolidation” does to the economy.
Forecasters assumed that monetary expansion would provide an effective antidote to
fiscal
contraction.
There is much greater scope for
fiscal
stimulus to boost growth, and much smaller scope for monetary stimulus.
Instead, privatization was blocked, while
fiscal
reforms and deregulation remained paper proposals.
Contrary to popular cliché, PiS’s victory in 2005 did not result from “reform fatigue,” since there were not many reforms implemented in 2000-2005 (except for an ambitious but partially blocked attempt at
fiscal
consolidation).
In Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has unleashed a combination of aggressive monetary and
fiscal
expansion along with promised reforms of the labor market, corporate governance, regulation, and trade.
Counterproductive and excessive
fiscal
austerity at the federal level has dampened growth this year, but the private sector has proved more resilient than expected.
Under current law,
fiscal
contraction is slated to ease next year and monetary policy is likely to remain supportive, so most forecasters predict an acceleration of growth.
The current Republican rhetoric in the House of Representatives portends additional
fiscal
austerity.
The US let its
fiscal
deficit rise above 10% of GDP, compared to less than 6% of GDP in the eurozone.
Measured over a five-year period (2007-2012), the US has thus not done any better than the eurozone, although it has relied on a much larger dose of
fiscal
expansion.
But the fact remains that its economy, supposedly the most flexible in Europe, has not recovered from the shock five years later, despite massive
fiscal
and monetary stimulus, coupled with a substantial devaluation.
Meanwhile, the euro group would pursue far greater
fiscal
integration, in addition to their current cooperation.
The proposed finance minister, responsible for overseeing
fiscal
policy in the monetary union, would be responsible to the eurozone parliament.
This system would allow those who do not wish to share monetary sovereignty, or engage in the kind of
fiscal
cooperation that must eventually come with it, to make that choice.
But, ironically, attention has focused on the fact that some of the investment money was not spent as well as it might have been, and on the
fiscal
deficit that the downturn and the government’s response created.
We do not have to see eye to eye on
fiscal
policy to understand that it makes more sense to promote investment than to see our productive structure languish.
But, unwilling to challenge the domestic political consensus on
fiscal
austerity, Merkel refused to invest in Germany’s future, say, by repairing decaying infrastructure and upgrading educational opportunities.
On the other hand, the review changes nothing concerning the two yawning holes – the twin
fiscal
and external deficits – in the national accounts.
Such resilience will be tested over the longer run, though, owing to the
fiscal
and external imbalances, which were unaffected by the data revision.
First, the committee explicitly discussed whether the capital market would suffice to impose
fiscal
discipline on the currency union’s members, and agreed that a system of rules was needed.
Most important, supervision suggested some potential responsibility to recapitalize problematic banks, and thus involved a
fiscal
cost.
And, until the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2007-2008 highlighted the connections between financial and
fiscal
health, no one considered that a problem.
Nevertheless,
fiscal
rules and common banking supervision are still regarded in many quarters as an illegitimate encroachment on member states’ sovereignty.
Then the Bush administration’s reckless
fiscal
policy pushed it lower.
Without monetary policy,
fiscal
policy or supply side reforms, how else can Japan return to growth except by a depreciation-driven export boom?
Europe's leading economies, like Germany, are a
fiscal
embarrassment.
So the entire
fiscal
system is a crucial item on China’s reform agenda, especially management of public capital.
Fiscal
reform will determine many things: the components of domestic income and demand that will drive structural change on the supply side, the allocation of income and expenditure across levels of government, and the embedded incentives that this allocation implies.
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