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Record W3116459607

Fiscal Planning in an Era of Economic Stability

2010· article· en· W3116459607 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Doug Hostland

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicMonetary Policy and Economic Impact
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEconomicsDebtVolatility (finance)Inflation (cosmology)Output gapFiscal policyWelfare economicsMacroeconomicsMonetary economicsEconometricsMonetary policy
DOInot available

Abstract

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Recent research has shown that the volatility of output growth and inflation has declined over time in Canada, and most other industrialized countries. This paper examines the implications for medium-term fiscal planning at the federal level in Canada. We examine the performance of mean forecasts of output growth and inflation obtained from surveys of private sector forecasters in Canada and the US. The results indicate a substantial decline in forecast uncertainty since the mid-1980s. We then calibrate a stochastic simulation model to match the performance of private sector forecasts over the historical period. Stochastic simulation experiments are used to illustrate how varying the amount of uncertainty surrounding economic forecasts influences debt reduction outcomes. The reduction in forecast uncertainty observed over the historical period is found to have a major impact on the dispersion of debt reduction outcomes when the fiscal planning framework involves multi-period commitments to tax and spending measures. The simulation results also demonstrate that keeping inflation stable and avoiding over-optimistic estimates of potential output growth help ensure that the debt-to-GDP ratio is kept on a clear, downward profile in the presence of uncertainty surrounding economic developments. Des recherches récentes ont révélé une réduction progressive de la volatilité de la croissance de la production et de l’inflation au Canada et dans la plupart des pays industrialisés. Dans le présent document, nous étudions les répercussions de ce phénomène sur la planification budgétaire à moyen terme dans l’administration fédérale au Canada. Dans un premier temps, nous examinons la performance des prévisions moyennes liées à la croissance de la production et à l’inflation établies par des prévisionnistes du secteur privé au Canada et aux États-Unis. Les résultats démontrent une réduction marquée de l’incertitude dans les prévisions depuis le milieu des années 80. Dans un deuxième temps, nous calibrons un modèle de simulation stochastique afin de reproduire la performance des prévisions dans le secteur privé au cours de la période historique. Les expériences de simulation stochastique permettent d’illustrer l’influence de l’incertitude entourant les prévisions économiques sur la réduction de la dette. Nous avons constaté que la réduction de l’incertitude dans les prévisions observée au cours de la période historique a une incidence majeure sur la dispersion de la réduction de la dette lorsque le cadre de planification budgétaire comprend des engagements sur plusieurs périodes à l’égard de mesures touchant les recettes ou les dépenses. De plus, les résultats de la simulation indiquent qu’en stabilisant l’inflation et en établissant des prévisions prudentes au chapitre de la croissance de la production, on peut faire en sorte que le ratio de la dette au PIB se maintienne fermement sur une pente descendante face à l’incertitude entourant les développements économiques.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.011
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.564
Threshold uncertainty score0.878

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.011
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0050.002
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.092
GPT teacher head0.265
Teacher spread0.172 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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