Chile’s fiscal rule as social insurance

Well before the Great Recession of 2009 put fiscal policy debates in the front burner commodity-exporting countries had to deal with important fiscal policy dilemmas stemming from revenue volatility and eventual depletion. Chilean policymakers have been at the forefront in this area since adopting a...

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Autores principales: Engel, Eduardo, Neilson M., Christopher, Valdés, Rodrigo
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Publicado: Banco Central de Chile 2019
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spelling oai-20.500.12580-37912021-04-24T11:06:49Z Chile’s fiscal rule as social insurance Engel, Eduardo Neilson M., Christopher Valdés, Rodrigo POLÍTICA FISCAL CRISIS ECONÓMICA 2008 PRODUCTOS BÁSICOS Well before the Great Recession of 2009 put fiscal policy debates in the front burner commodity-exporting countries had to deal with important fiscal policy dilemmas stemming from revenue volatility and eventual depletion. Chilean policymakers have been at the forefront in this area since adopting a fiscal rule to guide government spending decisions a decade ago. This so-called structural balance rule (SBR) incorporates fluctuations in copper prices—the main source of volatility in fiscal revenues—and was instrumental in saving a large part of the windfall during the commodity boom of 2005–08. When the country went into recession in 2009 however the rule was essentially abandoned as authorities implemented a fiscal expansion beyond that suggested by the SBR. 2019-11-01T00:05:48Z 2019-11-01T00:05:48Z 2013 Artículo 978-956-7421-37-4 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12580/3791 eng Series on Central Banking Analysis and Economic Policies no. 17 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Chile http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cl/ .pdf Sección o Parte de un Documento p. 393-425 application/pdf CHILE Banco Central de Chile
institution Banco Central
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language eng
topic POLÍTICA FISCAL
CRISIS ECONÓMICA 2008
PRODUCTOS BÁSICOS
spellingShingle POLÍTICA FISCAL
CRISIS ECONÓMICA 2008
PRODUCTOS BÁSICOS
Engel, Eduardo
Neilson M., Christopher
Valdés, Rodrigo
Chile’s fiscal rule as social insurance
description Well before the Great Recession of 2009 put fiscal policy debates in the front burner commodity-exporting countries had to deal with important fiscal policy dilemmas stemming from revenue volatility and eventual depletion. Chilean policymakers have been at the forefront in this area since adopting a fiscal rule to guide government spending decisions a decade ago. This so-called structural balance rule (SBR) incorporates fluctuations in copper prices—the main source of volatility in fiscal revenues—and was instrumental in saving a large part of the windfall during the commodity boom of 2005–08. When the country went into recession in 2009 however the rule was essentially abandoned as authorities implemented a fiscal expansion beyond that suggested by the SBR.
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