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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788408003321

Titolo

Fiscal Consolidation in Israel : : A Global Fiscal Model Perspective

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-3667-1

1-4527-1280-8

1-283-51284-X

1-4519-0966-7

9786613825292

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (33 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Fiscal policy - Israel

Economic stabilization - Israel

Macroeconomics

Public Finance

Debt

Debt Management

Sovereign Debt

Fiscal Policy

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General

Public finance & taxation

Public debt

Fiscal consolidation

Expenditure

Government debt management

Fiscal policy

Debts, Public

Expenditures, Public

Israel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"November 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. FISCAL PERFORMANCE IN ISRAEL""; ""III. THE MODEL""; ""IV. FISCAL CONSOLIDATION: NOW VERSUS LATER""; ""V. TAX CUTS""; ""VI. CONCLUSION""; ""APPENDIX. CALIBRATION OF GFM""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

Fiscal consolidation has become an important policy prescription for many emerging market countries (EMCs), particularly for the highly indebted ones. Although prudent fiscal policies tend to reduce vulnerabilities, their implementation is usually postponed. This paper represents, to the best of our knowledge, one of the first attempts in the literature to quantify the costs of delaying fiscal consolidation in an EMC. In particular, using the IMF's Global Fiscal Model (GFM), we find that early consolidation through expenditure cuts would result in a substantial increase in Israel's long-term output growth relative to the case with delayed fiscal adjustment. Using an alternative fiscal instrument, we find that delaying tax cuts would result in cumulative real GDP that is much larger than otherwise.