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 language | English |
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Article number | 39 |
Journal | Economists' Voice |
Volume | 8 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jan 2011 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- OECD
- fiscal stimuli
- global crisis
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Business, Management and Accounting
- General Economics, Econometrics and Finance