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THIẾU HỤT NGÂN
SÁCH NHÀ NƯỚC
Nguyeãn Hoàng Thaéng
Noäi dung
 Thieáu huït ngaân saùch nhaø nöôùc
– Quan ñieåm
– Phaân loaïi
 Nguyeân nhaân thieáu huït ngaân
saùch nhaø nöôùc
 Taøi trôï thieáu huït ngaân saùch
nhaø nöôùc
 Nôï coâng
Tình trạng thieáu huït ngaân
saùch nhaø nöôùc
 Trạng thaùi chi NSNN vöôït thu NSNN
trong moät khoaûng thôøi gian
 Thieáu huït NSNN vaø nôï coâng coù
moái quan heä maät thieát vôùi nhau
 Nôï coâng laø moät con soá thôøi
ñieåm. Thieáu huït NSNN laø moät
con soá thôøi kyø.
 Toång caùc khoaûn thieáu huït trong
quaù khöù coäng doàn laïi thaønh dö
Top Ten National Budgets (2004)
National Government Budgets for 2004 (In Billions of US$)
Nation
GDP
Revenue
Expenditure
Exp / GDP
Budget Deficit
Deficit / GDP
US (fed.)
11700
1862
2338
19.98%
-25.56%
-4.07%
-
900
850
7.6%
+5%
+0.4%
Japan
4600
1400
1748
38.00%
-24.86%
-7.57%
Germany
2700
1200
1300
48.15%
-8.33%
-3.70%
UK
2100
835
897
42.71%
-7.43%
-2.95%
France
2000
1005
1080
54.00%
-7.46%
-3.75%
Italy
1600
768
820
51.25%
-6.77%
-3.25%
China
1600
318
349
21.81%
-9.75%
-1.94%
Spain
1000
384
386
38.60%
-0.52%
-0.20%
Canada
900
150
144
16.00%
+4.00%
+0.67%
South
Korea
600
150
155
25.83%
-3.33%
-0.83%
US (state)
Nguồn: www.wikipedia.org/
Phaân loaïi thieáu huït
NSNN theo thôøi gian
 Thieáu huït NSNN trong ngaén haïn:
– Chi tieâu coâng mang tính thöôøng xuyeân
– Thueá thu chöa kòp
– Vay ngaén haïn
 Thieáu huït NSNN trong daøi haïn:
– Trong nhieàu taøi khoaù
– Cho thaáy tình traïng suy keùm cuûa khu vöïc
coâng
– Vay daøi haïn
– Vieän trôï khaån caáp
Phaân loaïi thieáu huït
NSNN theo nguoàn goác
 Thieáu huït cô caáu:
– Chính phuû chuû ñoäng
– Chính phuû thay ñoåi chính saùch thu,
chi
 Thieáu huït chu kyø:
– AÛnh höôûng bôûi nhöõng bieán ñoäng
kinh teá mang tính chu kyø
– Cuõng coù theå chòu taùc ñoäng bôûi
thieáu huït cô caáu
Quan ñieåm coå ñieåm
Quan
ñieåm
veà
thieáu
huït
NSNN
 Tieâu bieåu: Adam Smith
 Noäi dung:
– UÛng hoä ngaân saùch caân baèng
– Choáng thieáu huït ngaân saùch vì
thieáu huït NSNN ñoàng nghóa vôùi nôï
naàn.
– Gaùnh naëng nôï seõ doàn leân vai theá
heä sau.
Quan ñieåm hieän ñaïi
Quan
ñieåm
veà
thieáu
huït
NSNN
 Tieâu bieåu: J.M. Keynes, P.A.
Samuelson
 Thôøi gian: 1929-1930
 Noäi dung:
– Chuû tröông kích thích tieâu duøng
– UÛng hoä thieáu huït
– Caét giaûm thueá vaø taêng chi coâng
– Coù theå in theâm tieàn
– Taêng vay nôï
The Keynesian View of
Fiscal Policy
The Keynesian View of Fiscal
Policy
• Keynesian theory highlights the potential of fiscal
policy as a tool capable of reducing fluctuations in
aggregate demand.
• Following the Great Depression, Keynesians
challenged the view that governments should always
balance their budget.
– Rather than balancing their budget annually,
Keynesians argue that counter-cyclical policy
should be used to offset fluctuations in aggregate
demand.
– This implies that the government should
plan budget deficits when the economy is weak
and budget surpluses when strong demand
threatens to cause inflation.
Keynesian Policy To Combat
Recession
• When an economy is operating below
its potential output, the Keynesian
model suggests that the government
should institute expansionary fiscal
policy, by:
– increasing the government’s purchases
of goods & services, and/or,
– cutting taxes.
Expansionary Fiscal Policy
Price
Level
Keynesians believe that
allowing for the market to
self-adjust may be a lengthy
and painful process.
LRAS
SRAS1
SRAS2
E2
P2
P1
e1
P3
E3
Expansionary fiscal policy
stimulates demand and
directs the economy to
full-employment
AD1 AD2
Y 1 YF
Goods & Services
(real GDP)
• At e1 (Y1), the economy is below its potential capacity YF .
There are 2 routes to long-run full-employment equilibrium:
– Wait for lower wages and resource prices to reduce costs,
increase supply to SRAS2 and restore equilibrium to E3, at YF.
– Alternatively, expansionary fiscal policy could stimulate
AD (shift to AD2) and guide the economy back to E2, at YF .
Keynesian Policy To Combat
Inflation
• When inflation is a potential problem,
Keynesian analysis suggests a shift
toward a more restrictive fiscal
policy by:
– reducing government spending, and/or,
– raising taxes.
Restrictive Fiscal Policy
Price
Level
SRAS2
LRAS
SRAS1
P3
E3
P1
P2
e1
E2
Restrictive fiscal policy
restrains demand and
helps control inflation.
AD2 AD1
YF Y 1
Goods & Services
(real GDP)
• Strong demand such as AD1 will temporarily lead to an output
rate beyond the economy’s long-run potential YF.
– If maintained, the strong demand will lead to the long-run
equilibrium E3 at a higher price level (SRAS shifts to SRAS2).
– Restrictive fiscal policy could reduce demand to AD2 (or keep AD
from shifting to AD1 initially) and lead to equilibrium E2.
Quan ñieåm hieän ñaïi:
Lerner
Quan
ñieåm
veà
thieáu
huït
NSNN
 Chính phuû vay daân chuùng goïi laø
nôï beân trong (internal debt).
 Nôï noäi boä khoâng taïo ra gaùnh
naëng cho theá heä töông lai.
 Chính phuû vay nöôùc ngoaøi goïi laø
nôï beân ngoaøi (external debt).
 Nôï beân ngoaøi coù theå taïo moät
gaùnh naëng cho theá heä töông lai.
Nguyeân nhaân gaây thieáu
huït NSNN
 Chính phuû gia taêng vai troø cuûa
mình  Chi tieâu coâng gia taêng
trong khi thu nhaäp coâng khoâng
haún do chính phuû chuû ñoäng
hoaøn toaøn.
 Chính phuû chuû ñoäng ñieàu chænh
cô caáu kinh teá.
 Ñieàu haønh taøi chính coâng keùm
hieäu löïc.
Taøi trôï thieáu huït NSNN
 Phaùt haønh tieàn
 Giaûm chi
 Taêng thueá
 Choáng tham nhuõng (bòt roø ræ)
 Vay nôï
Taêng thueá hay vay nôï ?
Taøi
trôï
thieáu
huït
NSNN
 Quan ñieåm lôïi ích:
– Ai höôûng lôïi töø nhöõng chöông trình gaây ra
thieáu huït NSNN thì ngöôøi ñoù phaûi gaùnh
chòu. Neáu thieáu huït ñeå ñaàu tö cho töông
lai thì neân vay nôï.
 Quan ñieåm coâng baèng:
– Theá heä töông lai laø theá heä giaøu hôn hieän
taïi. Neân vay nôï. Hôn nöõa hieän giaù caùc
khoaûn traû nôï thöôøng giaûm ñi khi thôøi gian
vay ngaøy caøng daøi
 Quan ñieåm hieäu quaû:
– Caùch naøo ít taïo ra gaùnh naëng phuï troäi
vaø quaûn lyù deã hôn thì choïn
Vay trong nöôùc hay vay
nöôùc ngoaøi?
 Vay trong nöôùc:
– Deã vay; AÙp löïc traû laõi thaáp (traû
noäi teä; laïm phaùt, taêng thueá,…)
– Quy moâ nhoû; Uy tín khoâng cao;
Khoâng nhaän ñöôïc tö vaán quoác teá.
 Vay nöôùc ngoaøi:
– (Ngöôïc laïi)
Fiscal Policy and
the Crowding-out Effect
The Crowding-out Effect
 The Crowding-out effect
– indicates that the increased borrowing to
finance a budget deficit will push real interest
rates up and thereby retard private spending,
reducing the stimulus effect of expansionary
fiscal policy.
 The implications of the crowding-out analysis
are symmetrical.
Restrictive fiscal policy will reduce real
interest rates and "crowd in" private
spending.
 Crowding-out effect in an open economy:
Larger budget deficits and higher real interest
rates lead to an inflow of capital, appreciation
in the dollar, and a decline in net exports.
Crowding-Out in an Open
Economy
Decline in
private investment
Increase in
budget deficit
Higher real
interest rates
Inflow of financial
capital from abroad
Appreciation
of the dollar
Decline in
net exports
 An increase in government borrowing to finance an enlarged
budget deficit places upward pressure on real interest rates.
 This retards private investment and Aggregate Demand.
 In an open economy, high interest rates attract foreign capital.
 As foreigners buy more dollars to buy U.S. bonds and other
financial assets, the dollar appreciates.
 The appreciation of the dollar causes net exports to fall.
 Thus, the larger deficits and higher interest rates trigger
reductions in both private investment and net exports, which
limit the expansionary impact of a budget deficit.
The New Classical View
of Fiscal Policy
The New Classical View
of Fiscal Policy
• The New Classical view stresses that:
– debt financing merely substitutes higher
future taxes for lower current taxes, and
thus,
– budget deficits affect the timing of taxes, but
not their magnitude.
• New Classical economists argue that when
debt is substituted for taxes:
– people save the increased income so they
will be able to pay the higher future taxes,
thus,
– the budget deficit does not stimulate
aggregate demand.
The New Classical View
of Fiscal Policy
• Similarly, New Classical economists believe
that the real interest rate is unaffected by
deficits as people save more in order to pay
the higher future taxes.
• Further, they believe fiscal policy is
completely impotent – that it does not affect
output, employment, or real interest rates.
Expansionary Fiscal Policy
Price
Level
SRAS1
P1
AD1
Y1
AD2
Goods & Services
(real GDP)
 New Classical economists emphasize that budget deficits
merely substitute future taxes for current taxes.
 If households did not anticipate the higher future taxes,
aggregate demand would increase (from AD1 to AD2).
 However, when households fully anticipate the future taxes
and save for them, demand remains unchanged at AD1.
Expansionary Fiscal Policy
Loanable Funds
Market
Real
interest
rate
S1
S2
e1
e2
Here, fiscal policy exerts
no effect on the interest rate,
real GDP, or unemployment.
r1
D1
Q1
Q2
D2
Quantity of
loanable funds
• To finance the budget deficit, the government borrows from
the loanable funds market, increasing the demand (to D2).
• Under the new classical view, people save to pay expected
higher future taxes (raising the supply of loanable funds to S2.)
• This permits the government to borrow the funds to finance
the deficit without pushing up the interest rate.
Questions for Thought:
1. “When the federal government runs a budget
deficit, it finances the deficit by issuing
additional U.S. Treasury bonds.”
-- Is this statement true?
2. When an economy is operating below its
potential capacity, Keynesian economists argue
that
a. taxes should be raised if the government is
currently running a budget deficit.
b. the government should cut taxes and/or
increase expenditures in order to stimulate
aggregate demand.
c. government spending should be cut and the
budget shifted toward a surplus.
Questions for Thought:
3. The crowding out effect indicates that budget
deficits …
a. will stimulate aggregate demand and so
exert a strong impact on both output &
employment.
b. will lead to additional borrowing and higher
interest rates that will reduce the level of
private spending.
4. “New classical economists stress that an
increase in government expenditures
financed by borrowing rather than taxes will
lead to higher interest rates.”
-- Is this statement true?
Fiscal Policy Changes
and Problems of Timing
Problems with Proper Timing
• There are three major reasons why it is difficult
to time fiscal policy changes in
a manner that produces stability:
– It takes time to institute a legislative change.
– There is a time lag between when a change is
instituted & when it exerts significant impact.
– These time lags imply that sound policy
requires knowledge of economic conditions
9 to 18 months in the future. But our ability to
forecast future conditions is limited.
• Discretionary fiscal policy is like a
two-edged sword; it can both harm and help:
– If timed correctly,
it may reduce economic instability.
– If timed incorrectly, however,
it may increase economic instability.
Timing of Fiscal Policy is
Difficult
Price
Level
LRAS
SRAS1
P0
P1
E0
e1
AD1
Y1 Y0
AD0
Goods & Services
(real GDP)
• Consider a market at long-run equilibrium E0 where only
the natural rate of unemployment is present.
• An investment slump and business pessimism result in an
unanticipated decline in AD (to AD1). Output falls (to Y1)
and unemployment increases.
Timing of Fiscal Policy is
Difficult
Price
Level
LRAS
SRAS1
Suppose that shifts in AD
are difficult to forecast.
P0
P1
E0
e1
AD1
Y 1 Y0
AD0
Goods & Services
(real GDP)
• After a time, policymakers consider and implement
expansionary fiscal policy seeking to shift AD1 back to AD0.
• But it will take time to institute changes in taxes and
expenditures. Political forces will slow this process.
Timing of Fiscal Policy is Difficult
Price
Level
LRAS
SRAS1
P0
P1
E0
e1
AD2
AD1
Y 1 Y0
AD0
Goods & Services
(real GDP)
 By the time a more expansionary fiscal policy is instituted and
begins to exert its primary effect, private investment
may have recovered and decision makers may therefore be
increasingly optimistic about the future.
 Hence, the more expansionary fiscal policy may over-shift
AD to AD2.
Timing of Fiscal Policy is Difficult
Price
Level
LRAS
SRAS2
SRAS1
P3
E3
P2
e2
P0
P1
E0
e1
AD2
AD0
AD1
Y 1 Y0 Y 2
Goods & Services
(real GDP)
• The price level in the economy rises (from P1 to P2) as the
economy is now overheating. Thus, incorrect timing leads
to inflation.
• Unless the expansionary fiscal policy is reversed, wages and
other resource prices will eventually increase, shifting SRAS
back to SRAS2 (driving the price level up to P3).
Timing of Fiscal Policy is Difficult
Price
Level
LRAS
SRAS1
P2
P0
e2
E0
AD2
AD0
Y0 Y 2
Goods & Services
(real GDP)
• Alternatively, suppose an investment boom disrupts
the initial equilibrium shifting AD out to AD2, and
prices upward to P2.
• Policymakers consider and eventually implement
an increase in taxes and a cut in government
expenditures.
Timing of Fiscal Policy is Difficult
Price
Level
LRAS
SRAS1
P2
e2
P0
P1
Suppose that shifts in AD
are difficult to forecast.
E0
e1
AD2
AD0
AD1
Y 1 Y0 Y 2
Goods & Services
(real GDP)
• By the time the more restrictive fiscal policy takes affect,
investment may have returned to its normal rate (shifting
AD2 back to AD0).
• In this case, the incorrect timing of the shift to the more
restrictive fiscal policy to deal with potential inflation throws
the economy into a recession (by over shifting AD to AD ).
Why Timing of Fiscal Policy
Changes Are Difficult: A
Summary
• Because fiscal policy does not work
instantaneously, and since dynamic forces are
constantly influencing private demand, proper
timing of fiscal policy is not an easy task.
• Further, political incentives also influence fiscal
policy. Public choice analysis indicates that
legislators are delighted to spend money on
programs that directly benefit their own
constituents but are reluctant to raise taxes
because they impose a visible cost on voters.
– There is a political bias towards spending
and budget deficits. Predictably, deficits will
be far more common than surpluses.
• Incorrectly timed policy changes may, themselves, be a source of economic instability.
Automatic Stabilizers
• Automatic Stabilizers:
Without any new legislative action, they tend to
increase the budget deficit (or reduce the
surplus) during a recession and increase the
surplus (or reduce the deficit) during an
economic boom.
• The major advantage of automatic stabilizers is
that they institute counter-cyclical fiscal policy
without the delays associated with legislative
action.
• Examples of automatic stabilizers:
– Unemployment compensation
– Corporate profit tax
– A progressive income tax
Fiscal Policy as
a Stabilization Tool:
A Modern Synthesis
Fiscal Policy: A Modern
Synthesis
• A modern synthesis view about the efficacy of
fiscal policy emerged from the economic
debates of the 1970s and 1980s.
• The key elements of that view are:
– Proper timing of discretionary fiscal policy
is both difficult to achieve and of crucial
importance.
– Automatic stabilizers reduce the fluctuation
of aggregate demand and help to direct the
economy toward full-employment.
– Fiscal policy is much less potent than the
early Keynesian view implied.
– Each of the 3 demand-side models of fiscal
policy is valid under some circumstances but
not others. Thus, all 3 are necessary for a
comprehensive view of fiscal policy.
Questions for Thought:
1. Why is the proper timing of changes in fiscal
policy so important? Why is it difficult to
achieve?
2. Which of the following will make it more difficult
to institute discretionary changes in fiscal policy
in a manner that will exert a stabilizing impact on
the economy?
a. the lengthy time period required for passage
of a fiscal policy change under a political
system with substantial checks and balances
b. improvements in forecasting devices that
provide information about the future direction
of the economy
Questions for Thought:
3. “Both the crowding out and new classical
views indicate fiscal policy is substantially
less potent than the Keynesian view implies.”
-- Is this statement true?
4. Automatic stabilizers are government programs
that tend to:
a. bring expenditures and revenues automatically
into balance without legislative action.
b. shift the budget toward a deficit when the
economy slows but shift it towards a surplus
during an expansion.
c. increase tax collections automatically during
a recession.
NÔÏ NÖÔÙC NGOAØI TAÏI
VIEÄT NAM
Nôï nöôùc ngoaøi cuûa
quoác gia
 Soá dö nôï goác vaø laõi taïi moät thôøi
ñieåm.
 Thaønh phaàn:
– Nôï nöôùc ngoaøi cuûa khu vöïc coâng (Nôï
nöôùc ngoaøi cuûa Chính phuû + Nôï nöôùc
ngoaøi cuûa chính quyeàn caáp tænh + Nôï
nöôùc ngoaøi cuûa doanh nghieäp nhaø nöôùc)
– Nôï nöôùc ngoaøi cuûa khu vöïc tö.
 Do Chính phuû thoáng nhaát quaûn lyù vaø
Boä Taøi chính laø cô quan ñaàu moái.
 Chính quyeàn caáp tænh, cô quan nhaø
nöôùc (cô quan quaûn lyù haønh chính),
Nôï nöôùc ngoaøi cuûa
Chính phuû
 Nhöõng khoaûn vay ODA, vay thöông maïi
Nôï
coâng
(vay ñeå cho vay hay ñaûo nôï) hoaëc tín
duïng xuaát khaåu döôùi danh nghóa chính
phuû vôùi ngöôøi cho vay nöôùc ngoaøi.
 Nhöõng yeâu caàu cô baûn:
– Söû duïng ñuùng muïc ñích.
– Chuû yeáu duøng cho nhöõng chöông trình döï
aùn coù khaû naêng thu hoài voán, traùnh söû
duïng nhö caáp phaùt NS.
– Tranh thuû vay öu ñaõi vaø öu tieân söû duïng
chuùng cho phaùt trieån haï taàng kinh teá, xaõ
hoäi.
– Söû duïng caùc bieän phaùp: taùi cô caáu nôï,
Nôï nöôùc ngoaøi cuûa
Chính phuû – Nôï song
phöông
Nôï
coâng
– Nôï
nöôùc
ngoaø
i
 Nôï tröïc tieáp theo quan heä 1:1
 Nôï cuûa 1 chính phuû vôùi 1 chính
phuû khaùc
 Hình thöùc cô baûn laø ODA
 Coù khuynh höôùng giaûm daàn
Nôï nöôùc ngoaøi cuûa
Chính phuû – Nôï ña
phöông
Nôï
coâng
– Nôï
nöôùc
ngoaø
i
 Nôï caùc toå chöùc quoác teá:
– Ngaân haøng theá giôùi
– Quyõ tieàn teä quoác teá
– Coâng ty taøi chính quoác teá
– Ngaân haøng phaùt trieån Chaâu AÙ…
 Nôï lieân chính phuû:
– Caâu laïc boä Paris,
–…
Nôï nöôùc ngoaøi cuûa
Chính phuû – Nôï tö nhaân
Nôï
coâng
– Nôï
nöôùc
ngoaø
i
 Chính phuû nôï baát kyø tö nhaân
naøo mua traùi phieáu phaùt haønh ra
ngoaøi nöôùc: ngaân haøng thöông
maïi, toå chöùc taøi chính khoâng
thuoäc chính phuû,…
 Caùc khoaûn chính phuû vay ngaân
haøng thöông maïi tö nhaân
 Laõi suaát thò tröôøng
Nôï nöôùc ngoaøi do Chính
phuû baûo laõnh
 Chính Phuû, thoâng qua Boä Taøi chính,
cam keát baûo laõnh vay nôï nöôùc ngöôøi
cho ngöôøi vay.
 Khoaûn vay ñöôïc baûo laõnh  10 tr.USD.
Phí baûo laõnh  1,5%/naêm.
 Ngöôøi ñöôïc baûo laõnh laø toå chöùc
kinh teá thuoäc moïi thaønh phaàn tröïc
tieáp kyù hôïp ñoàng vay nöôùc ngoaøi
vaø phaûi coù voán chuû chieám 20%
toång möùc ñaàu tö.
 Chöông trình/döï aùn ñöôïc baûo laõnh:
– Thuoäc troïng ñieåm quoác gia
– Nhaäp coâng ngheä cao cuûa döï aùn ñöôïc öu
tieân ñaàu tö
Giaùm saùt nôï nöôùc
ngoaøi
 Boä tröôûng, chuû tòch tænh chòu traùch
nhieäm tröôùc Thuû töôùng veà giaùm saùt
nôï nöôùc ngoaøi thuoäc ngaønh, ñòa
phöông mình.
 Boä TC, NHNN, Boä KH-ÑT vaø VP CP chòu
traùch nhieäm höôùng daãn giaùm saùt vaø
tröïc tieáp giaùm saùt theo chöùc naêng.
 Moïi ñôn vò tieáp nhaän nôï nöôùc ngoaøi
phaûi baùo caùo quyù, naêm vaø ñoät xuaát
veà tình hình söû duïng.
 Boä TC vaø NHNN chòu traùch nhieäm
Nôï trong nöôùc cuûa Chính
phuû – Coâng traùi daøi
haïn
Nôï
coâng
– Nôï
trong
nöôùc
 Treân 5 naêm
 Ñöôïc huy ñoäng cho caùc coâng
trình troïng ñieåm quoác gia ít coù
khaû naêng hoaøn traû: Toå hôïp Khí
– Ñieän – Ñaïm Caø Mau, Ñöôøng Hoà
Chí Minh,…
 Laõi suaát thaáp
 Khoâng mang tính thò tröôøng
 Giai ñoaïn 2003 – 2010 Chính phuû
Vieät Nam döï kieán huy ñoäng 63.000
Nôï trong nöôùc cuûa Chính
phuû – Traùi phieáu kho baïc
trung haïn
Nôï
coâng
– Nôï
trong
nöôùc
 Treân 1 naêm ñeán 5 naêm
 Ñöôïc huy ñoäng cho caùc coâng
trình quoác gia coù khaû naêng
hoaøn traû
 Coù theå phaùt haønh ra nöôùc
ngoaøi
Nôï cuûa ngaønh
Nôï
coâng
– Nôï
trong
nöôùc
 Ngaønh: daàu khí, cao su, deät may,…
 Laõi suaát thò tröôøng
 Thôøi gian treân 1 naêm
Nôï cuûa chính quyeàn ñòa
phöông
Nôï
coâng
– Nôï
trong
nöôùc
 Ñoâ thò: Haûi Phoøng, Haø Noäi,
Thaønh Phoá Hoà Chí Minh.
 Laõi suaát thò tröôøng
 Thôøi gian linh hoaït
 Nguoàn traû nôï: soá thu ngaân saùch
treân ñòa baøn.
Budget Deficits and Surpluses
 Changes in the size of the federal deficit or surplus are often used
to gauge whether fiscal policy is stimulating or restraining
demand.
 Changes in the size of the budget deficit or
surplus may arise from either:
– A change in the state of the economy, or,
– A change in discretionary fiscal policy.
 The federal budget is the primary tool of fiscal policy.
 Discretionary changes in fiscal policy: deliberate changes in
government spending and/or taxes designed to affect the size of
the budget deficit or surplus.
Supply-side Effects
of Fiscal Policy
Supply-side Effects of Fiscal
Policy
• From a supply-side viewpoint, the marginal tax
rate is of crucial importance:
– A reduction in marginal tax rates increases
the reward derived from added work,
investment, saving, and other activities that
become less heavily taxed.
• High marginal tax rates will tend to retard total
output because they will:
– discourage work effort and reduce the
productive efficiency of labor,
– adversely affect the rate of capital formation
and the efficiency of its use, and,
– encourage individuals to substitute less
desired tax-deductible goods for more
desired non-deductible goods.
Supply-side Effects of Fiscal
Policy
• So, changes in marginal tax rates, particularly
high marginal rates, may exert an impact on
aggregate supply because the changes will
influence the relative attractiveness of
productive activity in comparison to leisure and
tax avoidance.
• Impact of supply-side effects:
– Usually take place over a lengthy time period.
– There is some evidence that countries with
high taxes grow more slowly—France and
Germany versus United Kingdom.
– While the significance of supply-side effects
are controversial, there is evidence they are
important for taxpayers facing extremely high
tax rates – say rates of 40 percent or above.
Supply Side Economics and
Tax Rates
Price
Level
LRAS1 LRAS2
SRAS1
SRAS2
P0
E1
E2
AD1
YF1
YF2
With time, lower tax rates
promote more rapid growth
(shifting LRAS and SRAS
out to LRAS2 and SRAS2).
AD2
Goods & Services
(real GDP)
• What are the supply-side effects of a cut in marginal tax rates?
• Lower marginal tax rates increase the incentive to earn and use
resources efficiently. AD1 shifts out to AD2, and SRAS & LRAS
shift to the right.
• If the tax cuts are financed by budget deficits, AD may expand
by more than supply, bringing an increase in the price level.
Share of Taxes Paid By the
Rich
Share of personal income taxes
paid by top ½ % of earners
30 %
28 %
26 %
24 %
22 %
20 %
1964-65
Top rate cut from
91% to 70%
1990-93
Top rate raised from
30% to 39%
1986
Top rate cut from
50% to 30%
18 %
1997
Capital gains
tax rate cut
1981
Top rate cut from
70% to 50%
16 %
14 %
1960
1965
1970
1975
1980
1985
1990
1995
2000
• The share of personal income taxes paid by the top one-half
percent of earners is shown here.
• During the last four decades, the share of taxes paid by these
earners has increased as the top tax rates have declined. This
indicates that the supply side effects are strong for these
taxpayers.
Have Supply-siders Found
a Way to Soak the Rich?
 Since 1986 the top marginal personal income tax rate in the
United States has been less than 40% compared to 70% or more
prior to that time.
 Nonetheless, the top one-half percent of earners have paid more
than 25% of the personal income tax every year since 1997.
 This is well above the 14% to 19% collected from these taxpayers
in the 1960s and 1970s when much higher marginal personal
income tax rates were imposed on the rich.
Fiscal Policy
of the United States
U.S. Fiscal Policy, 1960-2004
 During the 1960s & 70s, budget deficits were generally
small except during recessions.
 Budget deficits generally increased during recessions
and shrank during expansions, primarily as the result
of automatic stabilizers rather than discretionary
policy changes.
 Reductions in income tax rates and sharp increases in
defense expenditures led to large deficits during the
1980s.
U.S. Fiscal Policy, 1960-2004
 While increases in defense spending expanded the deficit in the 1980s,
the opposite was true during the 1990s.
 The deficit shrank during the 1990s and
by the end of the decade federal budget surpluses were present.
 The combination of the 2001 recession and the economy’s sluggish
recovery,
the Bush Administration’s tax cut, and increases in defense spending
quickly moved the budget from surplus to deficit at the beginning of
the new century.
Federal Expenditures and Revenues
Federal Government Expenditures and Revenues
(as a share of GDP)
24%
Expenditures
22%
Deficits
20%
18%
Revenues
1960
1965
1970
1975
1980 1985
1990 1995
2000 2003
Source: Economic Report of the President, 2004, tables B-1 and B-79. Note, recessions are indicated by shaded bars.
 The federal deficit or surplus as a share of the economy is shown here. Note the
growth of budget deficits during the 1980s and the movement to surpluses
during the 1990s.
 A mix of factors (a recession, sluggish recovery, tax cut, & increased defense
spending) have led to deficits since 2001.
Fiscal Policy & Economic Performance:
The 1980s versus the 1990s
 Even though the federal deficits were large during the 1980s and
small during the 1990s, real economic growth was strong and the
inflation rate low during both decades.
– This result is consistent with the view that fiscal policy exerts
only a modest impact on aggregate demand, much like the
crowding-out and new classical models imply.
Questions for Thought:
1. How does the supply-side view of fiscal policy differ from the
demand-side view? Does the supply-side view stress the potential
of fiscal policy as a tool to smooth the ups and downs
of business cycles? What does it stress?
2. “The share of personal income taxes collected
from high income taxpayers has steadily
declined during the last 20 years.”
-- Is this statement true?
3. “Public choice theory indicates that votemaximizing politicians severely restrain
govt. spending because they have a strong
incentive to achieve and maintain budget
surpluses.” -- Is this statement true?
Questions for Thought:
4. The following quotation is from the mid-1980s by Paul Samuelson, a
leading American Keynesian:
“In the early stages of the Keynesian revolution,
macro-economists emphasized fiscal policy as the
most powerful and balanced remedy for demand
management. Gradually, shortcomings of fiscal
policy became apparent. The short-comings stem
from timing, politics, macro-economic theory, and
the deficit itself."
Explain what Samuelson means by each of the shortcomings he refers to.
Xử lý thiếu hụt tạm thời
 1.Ngân sách trung ương được tạm ứng Quỹ dự trữ tài chính của trung
ương, tồn ngân Kho bạc Nhà nước theo quyết định của Bộ trưởng Bộ
Tài chính; nếu còn thiếu thì tạm ứng từ Quỹ Bảo hiểm xã hội và các quỹ
tài chính nhà nước khác theo thoả thuận của Bộ Tài chính với Hội đồng
quản lý các quỹ này.
 Trường hợp đã tạm ứng các quỹ trên mà vẫn còn thiếu, thì Bộ trưởng
Bộ Tài chính báo cáo Thủ tướng Chính phủ quyết định tạm ứng vốn của
ngân sách Nhà nước.
 2.Ngân sách cấp tỉnh được tạm ứng từ Quỹ Dự trữ tài chính của tỉnh
theo quyết định của Uỷ ban nhân dân cấp tỉnh. Trường hợp đã sử dụng
Quỹ Dự trữ tài chính của tỉnh nhưng vẫn không đủ để chi trả các nhu
cầu cấp thiết không thể trì hoãn thì đề nghị Bộ Tài chính xem xét tăng
tiến độ cấp số bổ sung cân đối ngân sách hoặc tạm ứng từ ngân sách
trung ương (nếu ngân sách trung ương có khả năng) hoặc tạm ứng Quỹ
Dự trữ tài chính của trung ương.
 3.Ngân sách cấp huyện, ngân sách cấp xã được tạm ứng Quỹ Dự trữ tài
chính của tỉnh theo quyết định của Uỷ ban nhân dân tỉnh. Việc xem xét
cho tạm ứng đối với ngân sách cấp xã, ngoài đề nghị của Uỷ ban nhân
dân xã còn phải căn cứ vào ý kiến của Chủ tịch Uỷ ban nhân dân huyện.
Trong trường hợp Quỹ Dự trữ tài chính của tỉnh không đáp ứng được thì
có thể đề nghị cơ quan tài chính cấp trên tăng tiến độ bổ sung hoặc tạm
ứng từ nguồn ngân sách cấp trên (nếu ngân sách cấp trên có khả năng).
 4.Các khoản tạm ứng để xử lý thiếu hụt tạm thời phải được hoàn
trả trong năm ngân sách, trừ trường hợp được uỷ ban thường vụ
Quốc hội cho phép đối với tạm ứng từ Ngân hàng Nhà nước.
 5.Trường hợp đặc biệt, nếu đã thực hiện các giải pháp trên mà
vẫn không đáp ứng đủ nhu cầu chi, cơ quan tài chính phải đảm
bảo đủ nguồn chi trả, thanh toán cho các khoản về tiền lương và
có tính chất lương, chi đầu tư xây dựng cơ bản các công trình
quan trọng, chi chương trình mục tiêu quốc gia và các khoản chi
mang tính thường xuyên phải chi kịp thời để đảm bảo hoạt động
bình thường của cơ quan, đơn vị; đối với các khoản chi khác, sắp
xếp theo thứ tự ưu tiên. Đồng thời có thể yêu cầu Kho bạc Nhà
nước tạm dừng thanh toán đối với một số khoản chi về mua sắm,
sửa chữa theo từng nhiệm vụ cụ thể để bảo đảm cân đối quỹ
ngân sách nhưng không được ảnh hưởng đến việc tổ chức thực
hiện nhiệm vụ chính được giao của đơn vị.