The net fiscal expenditure stimulus in the US, 2008-9: Less than what you might think, and less than the fiscal stimuli of most OECD Countries

Joshua Aizenman, Gurnain K. Pasricha

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Abstract

Understanding how the economy reacted to fiscal stimulus in the aftermath of the deepest recession of the last fifty years is essential. Joshua Aizenman of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Gurnain Kaur Pasricha of the Santa Cruz Institute for International Economics and the Bank of Canada show that aggregate fiscal expenditure stimulus in the United States, properly adjusted for the declining fiscal expenditure of the fifty states, was close to zero in 2009. Furthermore, the USA is ranked at the bottom third in terms of the rate of expansion of the consolidated government consumption and investment of the 28 OECD countries they studied recently.

Original languageEnglish
Article number39
JournalEconomists' Voice
Volume8
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2011
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • OECD
  • fiscal stimuli
  • global crisis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Business, Management and Accounting
  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance

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