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Fiscal Success During COVID-19 Says Believe the Good News

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  • Adam S. Posen

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Too much blood in terms of unemployment and sweat in terms of intellectual effort has been spent on trying to determine the amount of fiscal space that economies have — our policy focus instead should be on what to do with the fiscal space that almost all advanced economies (and a surprising number of emerging market economies) actually have.

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  • Adam S. Posen, 2021. "Fiscal Success During COVID-19 Says Believe the Good News," Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics;Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), vol. 56(4), pages 190-193, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:intere:v:56:y:2021:i:4:d:10.1007_s10272-021-0980-y
    DOI: 10.1007/s10272-021-0980-y
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    1. Christian Breuer, 2021. "Structural Indicators and the Fiscal Uncertainty Principle," Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics;Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), vol. 56(4), pages 182-183, July.

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