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Can a comparative capitalism approach explain fiscal policy activism?

Title
Can a comparative capitalism approach explain fiscal policy activism?
Authors
Kalinowski T.Hlasny V.
Ewha Authors
Vladimir HlasnyThomas Kalinowski
SCOPUS Author ID
Vladimir Hlasnyscopus; Thomas Kalinowskiscopus
Issue Date
2017
Journal Title
Journal of Post Keynesian Economics
ISSN
0160-3477JCR Link
Citation
Journal of Post Keynesian Economics vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 376 - 412
Keywords
Central bank independencecollective bargainingEast Asiafinancial opennessfiscal activismmarket capitalizationvarieties of capitalism
Publisher
Routledge
Indexed
SSCI; SCOPUS WOS scopus
Document Type
Article
Abstract
This study investigates the implications of models of capitalism for the responsiveness of countries’ fiscal policies during business cycles using new data for member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and China. We expand the literature by adding the category of East Asian nonliberal capitalism to the established distinction of liberal market economies and nonliberal coordinated market economies. These three differ substantially not just in their fiscal policies, but also in monetary policies, degree of financial market orientation, exchange rate regime, and labor market organization. As in previous studies, we find that governments of liberal economies adopt more countercyclical fiscal policies. Departing from existing studies, however, among the nonliberal models of capitalism, (East Asian) state-led models have more countercyclical fiscal policies than (European) coordinated market economies, perhaps as countercyclical as liberal economies, both historically and during the 2007–9 crisis. This is due to less independent central banks, managed float of exchange rates, and limited financial market orientation and financial openness in East Asia, which allow for more active fiscal policy. Among political factors, left-of-center governments, fractionalized party systems, and election years are associated weakly with countercyclical fiscal policy, as expected. Labor market coordination and welfare generosity have unclear roles in regard to fiscal policy, a topic for future research. © 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
DOI
10.1080/01603477.2016.1273068
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