Short-term economic boost from fiscal stimulus outweighed by long-term output loss
Posted on November 18, 2009 at 11:20 AM EST
We all know there’s no such thing as a free lunch so it should come as no surprise that a new IMF working paper finds that the long-term costs of economic stimulus measures outweigh the short-term benefits. The paper, which is not official IMF policy, uses the IMF’s Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal Model to compute [...]