Macroeconomic Policy Regimes in Western Industrial Countries

Author(s):  
Hansjörg Herr ◽  
Milka Kazandziska
2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-44
Author(s):  
Luiz Filgueiras

From the point of view of their capitalist development pattern, the governments of Fernando Collor de Mello, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and Michel Temer, on the one hand, and Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff, on the other, were similar: the former were actively promoting that pattern and the latter accepting it as irreversible, the limit of the possible, and adapting to it. They differed, however, in the macroeconomic policy regimes they adopted. The development pattern of the Workers’ Party governments may be described as the peripheral-liberal pattern, the form assumed by neoliberalism in Brazil. Do ponto de vista de seu padrão de desenvolvimento capitalista, os governos de Fernando Collor de Mello, Fernando Henrique Cardoso e Michel Temer, por um lado, e Lula da Silva e Dilma Rousseff, por outro, se assemelhavam em. Os primeiros promovendo-o ativamente e os segundos aceitando esse padrão como irreversível. Eles diferiram, no entanto, nos regimes de política macroeconômica que adotaram. O padrão de desenvolvimento dos governos do Partido dos Trabalhadores é aqui descrito como o padrão liberal periférico, a forma assumida pelo neoliberalismo no Brasil.


Author(s):  
Eckhard Hein ◽  
Judith Martschin

AbstractWe contribute to the recent debates on demand and growth regimes in modern finance-dominated capitalism linking them to the post-Keynesian research on macroeconomic policy regimes. We examine the demand and growth regimes, as well as the macroeconomic policy regimes for the big four Eurozone countries, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, for the periods 2001–2009 and 2010–2019. First, our approach supports the usefulness of the identification of demand and growth regimes according to growth contributions of the main demand components and financial balances of the macroeconomic sectors. This allows for an understanding of the demand sources of growth, or stagnation, if there is a lack of demand, of how these sources are financed and of potential financial instabilities and fragilities. Second, when it comes to the macroeconomic policy drivers of demand and growth regimes, as well as their respective changes, we show that the exclusive focus on fiscal policies, as in the previous literature, is too limited and that it is the macroeconomic policy regime which matters here, i.e. the combination of monetary, fiscal and wage policies, as well as the open economy conditions.


2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
KENT WEAVER

AbstractThe literature on path dependence has emphasized positive feedback effects that make it difficult to shift from a policy regime once it is in place. This article argues that policy regimes may also have strong negative feedback effects that undermine the political, fiscal or social sustainability of an existing policy regime. The prospects for a shift in policy regime depend largely on the balance between positive and negative feedback effects; the availability of incremental reform options that can be used to patch the status quo; and the availability of politically and fiscally attractive regime transition options. The paper argues that differential survival rates of different public pension regimes in western industrial countries can be understood by the interaction of these three factors.


1984 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 68-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Barker ◽  
Andrew Britton ◽  
Robin Major

The comparison of events in Britain with the experience of other major industrial countries can make an important contribution to debate about policy alternatives. Within Western Europe such comparisons are especially apt since a number of countries of similar size, at broadly the same level of economic development, face many of the same problems and opportunities. The main purpose of the study reported here is to draw lessons for Britain from the experience of France, and to see to what extent the lessons one might be tempted to draw are the right ones bearing in mind the differences between the two countries as well as their similarities.


2010 ◽  
pp. 4-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Nekipelov ◽  
M. Golovnin

The paper analyzes the qualitative changes in monetary policy goals and instruments during the world economic crisis of 2007-2009 in industrial countries and Russia; it represents the authors view on Russian monetary policy goals and results on different stages of crisis development. On the basis of the analysis the authors conclude on the necessity of active exchange rate policy in Russia, while developing interest rate instruments, and implementation of some exchange restrictions to prevent crisis contagion in the future.


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