Modelling journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/ecmod The effects of fiscal spending shocks on the performance of simple monetary policy rules Ali K. Malik ⁎ Karachi School for Business and Leadership (KSBL), Bahadurabad, National Stadium Road, Karachi 74800, Pakistan a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Accepted 26 August 2012 JEL classification: E50 E52 E58 Keywords: Fiscal policy Monetary policy Inflation targeting Impulse response analysis Macroeconomic variables
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Political Environment Political Stability: Political stability of the country indicates towards the positive or negative affect on the Trade of a particular product. Our product is Canadian chocolate which can have a great potential to perform business in Japanese market because of its strong Political Stability. The Political Stability is based on a given country's record of peaceful transitions of power, ability of a government to stay in office and carry out its policies vis a vis risk credible risks
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Monetary policy is the process by which the monetary authority government controls the downturn economy through supply of money, often targeting a rate of interest for the purpose of promoting economic growth and stability in the world down turn. The official goals usually include relatively stable prices and low unemployment. Formulating a country's monetary and fiscal policy is extremely important when it comes to promoting sustainable economic growth. More specifically, monetary
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What is fiscal policy and how can it be used to manage the economy? Briefly describe the current UK fiscal policy, and comment on the effect it may have on the economy. Fiscal policy is the use of government spending, taxation and borrowing to influence the level and growth of aggregate demand, output and employment. Aggregate demand (AD)= Consumption + Investment + Government spending + (Exports – Imports). Changes in fiscal policy affect both aggregate demand and aggregate supply. (Riley 2006)
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that at the end of this lecture, some light would be thrown on the issue for a dispassionate and nonpartisan discussion by all stakeholders that would inure to the benefit of Ghana. Mr. Chairman, the exchange rate is a price, just like the price of any good or service. It is the price of one currency relative to another. How much of one currency does one need to give up to get one unit of another currency? The rate of exchange generally reflects the purchasing power of one currency relative to another
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services produced by an economy over time. Economic growth can be measured by changes in inflation. Gross Domestic Product is used to measure population differences between countries. Tesco Stability - Stable economic conditions for Tesco means that they can make better informed decisions because there is more stability within the economy. If the economy in the UK is stable, Tesco’s are likely to have a higher turnover and be profitable therefore at a time like this Tesco may wish to introduce new lines
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1. | Question : | (TCO 6) Expansionary fiscal policy is so named because it | | | Student Answer: | | involves an expansion of the nation's money supply. | | | | necessarily expands the size of government. | | | | is aimed at achieving greater price stability. | | | | is designed to expand real GDP. | | Instructor Explanation: | Chapter 30. | | | | Points Received: | 1 of 1 | | Comments: | | | | 2. | Question : | (TCO 6) An economist who favored
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analysis framework has three interrelated components: strategy, performance, and context. Each of these has economic, political, and social dimensions. All governments have a national strategy composed of explicit or implicit goals and a set of policies to achieve those goals. These lead to performance, which can be judged by assessing how well the country is doing economically, politically, and socially. These outcomes also depend on a country’s context, which has domestic aspects (economic,
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What is Linear Technology Current Payout Policy? Linear Technology (LT) is like many firms where it used a combination of dividend payments and share / stock repurchases to distribute cash to its shareholders. With a cash dividend, cash is paid directly to shareholders while, with a stock repurchase, a firm uses its cash to buy back its own shares from the market which in turn reduces the number of outstanding shares (Titman and Keown et al., 2011). LT wanted to be able to attract different dividend
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Explain how fiscal policy can be used to address a recessionary gap and discuss the merits and the consequences of the actual fiscal policy of the current administration. Why republicans are criticizing the current approach? What kind of fiscal policy are they proposing and will it work in light of the US experience? NO it will not. Democrat:”we can’t cut hour way to prosperity.Republican:”we should not increase taxes on anyone in the middle of a recession”. Fiscal Policy is described as changing
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