How Small Should an Economy's Fiscal Deficit Be? A Monetary Programming Approach

The author describes a spread-sheet planning model to help determine the government deficit consistent with a policymaker's "vector" of principal macroeconomic objectives (including real GDP growth, inflation, exchange rate, and inte...

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Main Author: Beckerman, Paul
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
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Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
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spelling okr-10986-188552021-04-23T14:03:46Z How Small Should an Economy's Fiscal Deficit Be? A Monetary Programming Approach Beckerman, Paul ACCRUED INTEREST ASSETS BANK LENDING BANK LOANS BASE YEAR BONDS CENTRAL BANK COMMERCIAL BANKS DEBT DEMAND FOR MONEY DEVELOPING ECONOMIES DOMESTIC PRICE DOMESTIC PRICE LEVEL ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMISTS ELASTICITIES ELASTICITY ELASTICITY OF DEMAND EXCHANGE RATE EXCHANGE VALUE EXTERNAL BORROWING EXTERNAL DEBT EXTERNAL FINANCING FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FINANCIAL MARKETS FINANCIAL SYSTEM FISCAL ADJUSTMENT FISCAL DEFICIT FISCAL POLICY FORECASTS FOREIGN CURRENCY FOREIGN EXCHANGE GOVERNMENT DEBT GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES IMPORTS INFLATION INFLATION RATE INTEREST RATE INTEREST RATES INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND INTERNATIONAL RESERVES LIQUIDITY MACROECONOMIC FRAMEWORK MACROECONOMIC OBJECTIVES MACROECONOMIC POLICY MONETARY AUTHORITY MONETARY EXPANSION MONEY DEMAND MONEY MULTIPLIER MONEY SUPPLY NET WORTH NOMINAL INTEREST RATE NOMINAL INTEREST RATES OUTPUT GROWTH POLICY ANALYSIS POLICY INSTRUMENTS POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY REDUCTION PUBLIC DEFICIT PUBLIC SECTOR REAL GDP REAL INTEREST REAL INTEREST RATE REAL INTEREST RATES REAL OUTPUT REAL TERMS RESERVE TAX REVENUE The author describes a spread-sheet planning model to help determine the government deficit consistent with a policymaker's "vector" of principal macroeconomic objectives (including real GDP growth, inflation, exchange rate, and international reserve accumulation). The model focuses on the monetary accounts, applying balance-of-payments forecasts formulated separately, but based on the same macroeconomic objectives. The model is a consistency exercise, intended as part of a broader consistency exercise for a given macro-economy. It offers one more perspective on the question of how large a government deficit should be - a perspective that can be used in conjunction with others. For each forecast period, the model determines consistent period-end and period-average stocks for the economy's outstanding central bank assets, and liabilities and, government obligations. I applies forecasting assumptions about interest rates to forecast central bank profit-and-loss flows, and takes account of these in determining the overall flow of resources that would be available to finance the government deficit. An annex describes a (purely illustrative) simulation carried out during 1999 for Ecuador. 2014-06-30T19:25:59Z 2014-06-30T19:25:59Z 2000-03 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/03/437906/small-economys-fiscal-deficit-monetary-programming-approach http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18855 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 2308 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research
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topic ACCRUED INTEREST
ASSETS
BANK LENDING
BANK LOANS
BASE YEAR
BONDS
CENTRAL BANK
COMMERCIAL BANKS
DEBT
DEMAND FOR MONEY
DEVELOPING ECONOMIES
DOMESTIC PRICE
DOMESTIC PRICE LEVEL
ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
ECONOMISTS
ELASTICITIES
ELASTICITY
ELASTICITY OF DEMAND
EXCHANGE RATE
EXCHANGE VALUE
EXTERNAL BORROWING
EXTERNAL DEBT
EXTERNAL FINANCING
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
FINANCIAL MARKETS
FINANCIAL SYSTEM
FISCAL ADJUSTMENT
FISCAL DEFICIT
FISCAL POLICY
FORECASTS
FOREIGN CURRENCY
FOREIGN EXCHANGE
GOVERNMENT DEBT
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT
GROWTH RATE
GROWTH RATES
IMPORTS
INFLATION
INFLATION RATE
INTEREST RATE
INTEREST RATES
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
INTERNATIONAL RESERVES
LIQUIDITY
MACROECONOMIC FRAMEWORK
MACROECONOMIC OBJECTIVES
MACROECONOMIC POLICY
MONETARY AUTHORITY
MONETARY EXPANSION
MONEY DEMAND
MONEY MULTIPLIER
MONEY SUPPLY
NET WORTH
NOMINAL INTEREST RATE
NOMINAL INTEREST RATES
OUTPUT GROWTH
POLICY ANALYSIS
POLICY INSTRUMENTS
POLICY RESEARCH
POVERTY REDUCTION
PUBLIC DEFICIT
PUBLIC SECTOR
REAL GDP
REAL INTEREST
REAL INTEREST RATE
REAL INTEREST RATES
REAL OUTPUT
REAL TERMS
RESERVE
TAX REVENUE
spellingShingle ACCRUED INTEREST
ASSETS
BANK LENDING
BANK LOANS
BASE YEAR
BONDS
CENTRAL BANK
COMMERCIAL BANKS
DEBT
DEMAND FOR MONEY
DEVELOPING ECONOMIES
DOMESTIC PRICE
DOMESTIC PRICE LEVEL
ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
ECONOMISTS
ELASTICITIES
ELASTICITY
ELASTICITY OF DEMAND
EXCHANGE RATE
EXCHANGE VALUE
EXTERNAL BORROWING
EXTERNAL DEBT
EXTERNAL FINANCING
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
FINANCIAL MARKETS
FINANCIAL SYSTEM
FISCAL ADJUSTMENT
FISCAL DEFICIT
FISCAL POLICY
FORECASTS
FOREIGN CURRENCY
FOREIGN EXCHANGE
GOVERNMENT DEBT
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT
GROWTH RATE
GROWTH RATES
IMPORTS
INFLATION
INFLATION RATE
INTEREST RATE
INTEREST RATES
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
INTERNATIONAL RESERVES
LIQUIDITY
MACROECONOMIC FRAMEWORK
MACROECONOMIC OBJECTIVES
MACROECONOMIC POLICY
MONETARY AUTHORITY
MONETARY EXPANSION
MONEY DEMAND
MONEY MULTIPLIER
MONEY SUPPLY
NET WORTH
NOMINAL INTEREST RATE
NOMINAL INTEREST RATES
OUTPUT GROWTH
POLICY ANALYSIS
POLICY INSTRUMENTS
POLICY RESEARCH
POVERTY REDUCTION
PUBLIC DEFICIT
PUBLIC SECTOR
REAL GDP
REAL INTEREST
REAL INTEREST RATE
REAL INTEREST RATES
REAL OUTPUT
REAL TERMS
RESERVE
TAX REVENUE
Beckerman, Paul
How Small Should an Economy's Fiscal Deficit Be? A Monetary Programming Approach
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 2308
description The author describes a spread-sheet planning model to help determine the government deficit consistent with a policymaker's "vector" of principal macroeconomic objectives (including real GDP growth, inflation, exchange rate, and international reserve accumulation). The model focuses on the monetary accounts, applying balance-of-payments forecasts formulated separately, but based on the same macroeconomic objectives. The model is a consistency exercise, intended as part of a broader consistency exercise for a given macro-economy. It offers one more perspective on the question of how large a government deficit should be - a perspective that can be used in conjunction with others. For each forecast period, the model determines consistent period-end and period-average stocks for the economy's outstanding central bank assets, and liabilities and, government obligations. I applies forecasting assumptions about interest rates to forecast central bank profit-and-loss flows, and takes account of these in determining the overall flow of resources that would be available to finance the government deficit. An annex describes a (purely illustrative) simulation carried out during 1999 for Ecuador.
format Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author Beckerman, Paul
author_facet Beckerman, Paul
author_sort Beckerman, Paul
title How Small Should an Economy's Fiscal Deficit Be? A Monetary Programming Approach
title_short How Small Should an Economy's Fiscal Deficit Be? A Monetary Programming Approach
title_full How Small Should an Economy's Fiscal Deficit Be? A Monetary Programming Approach
title_fullStr How Small Should an Economy's Fiscal Deficit Be? A Monetary Programming Approach
title_full_unstemmed How Small Should an Economy's Fiscal Deficit Be? A Monetary Programming Approach
title_sort how small should an economy's fiscal deficit be? a monetary programming approach
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2014
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/03/437906/small-economys-fiscal-deficit-monetary-programming-approach
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18855
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