Supporting fiscal policy decisions in the crisis

支持危机中的财政政策决策

基本信息

批准号：
ES/V00381X/1
负责人：
Paul Johnson
金额：
$ 15.51万
依托单位：
Institute for Fiscal Studies
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2020 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV00381X%2F1
关键词：
Supporting fiscal policy decisions crisis

项目摘要

We are going through an economic crisis. The government has responded with an unprecedented policy package, costing many tens of billions of pounds over just a few months - paying for employees to be furloughed, making payments to the self-employed, forgiving business rates, increasing public service spending and making the benefit system much more generous. Over the coming year, the government will have to decide whether to do more to insure households' incomes and prevent business failure, whether to use fiscal policy to kickstart the economy as the health crisis subsides and, ultimately, how to unwind these measures or whether to make some of them permanent. To guide these momentous decisions we propose targeted new analysis of new data sources, including a soon-to-be-available covid-19 module in a large-scale longitudinal household survey and real-time bank account data from a budgeting app. Combined with IFS' world-leading expertise on tax and benefit policy design and unrivalled familiarity with the institutional and policy context around the UK's labour market, taxes and benefits and the public finances, will inform how fiscal policies should be adjusted in the coming 12 months. We are having regular discussions and seminars with civil servants and policy advisors at the top of government through this crisis. The new work proposed here would feed in to this engagement directly, allowing us to help policy-makers take difficult decisions in this highly unusual and fast-moving economic environment, including through taking advantage of novel and timely data sources to produce the best possible empirical evidence.

我们正在经历一场经济危机。政府采取了前所未有的一揽子政策来应对，在短短几个月内就耗资数百亿英镑——支付员工休假费用、向个体经营者支付费用、免除商业税率、增加公共服务支出并提高福利水平。系统更加慷慨。未来一年，政府将不得不决定是否采取更多措施来保障家庭收入并防止企业倒闭，是否在健康危机消退后使用财政政策来刺激经济，以及最终如何取消这些措施，或者是否使其中一些成为永久性的。为了指导这些重大决策，我们建议对新数据源进行有针对性的新分析，包括即将推出的大规模纵向家庭调查中的 covid-19 模块以及来自预算应用程序的实时银行账户数据。结合 IFS 在税收和福利政策设计方面世界领先的专业知识，以及对英国劳动力市场、税收和福利以及公共财政的制度和政策背景的无与伦比的熟悉，将告知未来 12 个月应如何调整财政政策。在这场危机中，我们正在与政府高层的公务员和政策顾问定期进行讨论和研讨会。这里提出的新工作将直接促进这种参与，使我们能够帮助政策制定者在这个极不寻常和快速变化的经济环境中做出艰难的决定，包括通过利用新颖且及时的数据源来产生最佳的实证数据证据。