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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788338103321

Autore

Kumhof Michael

Titolo

Chile’s Structural Fiscal Surplus Rule : : A Model-Based Evaluation / / Michael Kumhof, Douglas Laxton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

1-4623-4770-3

1-4527-2585-3

9786612843082

1-282-84308-7

1-4518-7235-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (56 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

LaxtonDouglas

Soggetti

Fiscal policy - Chile

Finance, Public - Chile

Investments: Metals

Inflation

Macroeconomics

Public Finance

Metals and Metal Products

Cement

Glass

Ceramics

Macroeconomics: Consumption

Saving

Wealth

Labor Economics: General

Price Level

Deflation

Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General

Investment & securities

Labour

income economics

Public finance & taxation

Copper

Consumption

Labor

Revenue administration

Economics



Labor economics

Prices

Revenue

Chile

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; II. The Model; Figures; 1. Goods and Factor Flows in GIMF; A. Overlapping Generations Households; B. Liquidity Constrained Households; C. Manufacturers; D. Copper Producers; E. Unions; F. Import Agents; G. Distributors; H. Retailers; I. Government; J. Equilibrium and Balance of Payments; III. Calibration; IV. Choice of Countercyclical Coefficients; Tables; 1. Fiscal Policy Rules and Macroeconomic Volatility; 2. Policy Efficiency Frontiers; V. Choice of Surplus Target; 3. SFS Rule - Survey; 4. SFS Rule - Fiscal Accounts; 5. Balanced Budget Rule - Survey

6. Balanced Budget Rule - Fiscal Accounts7. Aggressive Countercyclical Rule - Survey; 8. Aggressive Countercyclical Rule - Fiscal Accounts; 9. Surplus Target Shock - Survey; 10. Surplus Target Shock - Fiscal; VI. Summary; References; Appendices; 1. Population Growth; 2. Optimality Conditions for OLG Households; 3. Consumption and Wealth; 4. Optimality for Manufacturing Firms

Sommario/riassunto

The paper analyzes Chile's structural balance fiscal rule in the face of copper price shocks originating in foreign copper demand. It uses a version of the IMF's Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal Model (GIMF) that includes a copper sector. Two results are obtained. First, Chile's current fiscal rule performs well if the policymaker puts a small weight on output volatility (relative to inflation volatility) in his/her objective function. A more aggressive countercyclical fiscal rule can attain lower output volatility, but there is a trade-off with (somewhat) higher inflation volatility and (much) higher volatility of fiscal variables. Second, given its current stock of government assets, Chile's adoption of a 0.5% surplus target starting in 2008 is desirable from a business cycle perspective. This is because the earlier 1% target would have required significant further asset accumulation that could only have been accomplished at the expense of greater volatility in fiscal instruments and therefore in GDP.