Stimulus Is Effective Only Under Certain Circumstances
Przemyslaw Radomski submits:
A recently published paper (.pdf) that studied the stimulus efforts in 44 countries showed some interesting findings. Ethan Ilzetzki of the London School of Economics and Enrique G. Mendoza and Carlos A. Vegh of the University of Maryland argued in their National Bureau of Economic Research paper that fiscal stimulus can be quite effective in low-debt countries with fixed exchange rates and closed economies.
But, stimulus measures are generally not as effective in countries like the U.S., with high debt and floating exchange rates. The authors of the paper pointed to a series of specific circumstances that throw a wrench into the effectiveness of increasing public spending: How much of the stimulus money ends up flowing abroad? How do investors respond to fear of future interest rate increases?
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