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¿Cuán procíclica es la política fiscal de las provincias argentinas? Evidencia para el periodo 1998- 2017

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  • Osvaldo Meloni

    (Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (Argentina))

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Este trabajo proporciona evidencia sobre la prociclidad de política fiscal de los distritos subnacionales argentinos. Estimo un modelo de corrección de errores utilizando un panel que abarca 20 años (1998 – 2017) y los 24 distritos. Encuentro que la política fiscal de las jurisdicciones subnacionales es procíclica en todas las grandes categorías de gasto público y también en todos los rubros más importantes de los ingresos fiscales a excepción de las transferencias automáticas, que no tienen significación estadística. La respuesta del gasto al crecimiento contemporáneo en el nivel de actividad es mayor que la estimada por Meloni (2018) para el lapso 1985-2007, similar a la obtenida por Abbott et al. (2015) para los estados mejicanos y un poco menor a la encontrada por Arena y Revilla (2009) para los estados brasileños. Mis estimaciones también confirman que los recursos totales son procíclicos siendo las transferencias discrecionales el rubro con mayor grado de prociclidadad. / This paper provides evidence on the fiscal policy prociclicality of Argentina's subnational districts. I estimate an error correction model using a panel spanning 20 years (1998 – 2017) and all 24 districts. I find that fiscal policy of subnational jurisdictions is procyclical in all main categories of public expenditure and tax revenue except for automatic transfers, which have no statistical significance. The response of spending to the contemporary growth of the economic activity is greater than that estimated by Meloni (2018) for the period 1985-2007, similar to the ones obtained by Abbott et al. (2015) for Mexican states and lower than Arena and Revilla (2009) for Brazilian states. My estimates confirm that total resources are also procyclical with discretionary transfers being the most procyclically.

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  • Osvaldo Meloni, 2021. "¿Cuán procíclica es la política fiscal de las provincias argentinas? Evidencia para el periodo 1998- 2017," Revista Actualidad Económica, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Instituto de Economía y Finanzas, vol. 31(103), pages 33-42, Ene-Abr.
  • Handle: RePEc:ief:revaec:v:31:y:2021:i:103:p:33-42
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    Keywords

    Política fiscal; prociclicidad; Argentina;
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    JEL classification:

    • E3 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles
    • H7 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations

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