Automatic stabilizers are a key factor in easing the consequences of negative economic shocks. What are automatic stabilizers and how do they work? In an earlier post on this topic, Social Insurance ...

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The $1.9 trillion recovery package set to go to a vote in the coming weeks won’t include automatic stabilizers. A perennially popular policy among left-of-center wonks and the public, automatic ...

As we approach sequestration today the dominant narrative continues to be that the huge run-up in the deficit since the Great Recession has been our greatest political-perhaps even a moral-failure.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday endorsed an idea that many Democratic lawmakers have been pushing: to use so-called automatic stabilizers to keep critical coronavirus relief programs running without ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation In this paper, a simple methodology to assess the effectiveness of automatic stabilizers is proposed and empirically tested ...