The Automatic Fiscal Stabilizers: Quietly Doing Their Thing

34 Pages Posted: 8 Mar 2006

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Darrel S. Cohen

Federal Reserve Board - Division of Research and Statistics

Glenn R. Follette

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Abstract

A paper presented at the December 1999 conference "Fiscal Policy in an Era of Surpluses: Economic and Financial Implications", sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Keywords: automatic fiscal stabilizers, federal tax, outlay elasticities

JEL Classification: E61, E62, H31

Suggested Citation

Cohen, Darrel S. and Follette, Glenn R., The Automatic Fiscal Stabilizers: Quietly Doing Their Thing. Economic Policy Review, Vol. 6, No. 1, April 2000, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=889065

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