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RBA Glossary definition for fiscal transparency
fiscal transparency – The facility which enables investors and other interested parties to satisfy themselves as to the nature and quality of the decision process pursued by policy-makers in government or the corporate entity concerned. One of the 12 key standards identified by the Financial Stability Forum as the minimum required for good practice in sound financial systems. Fiscal transparency strengthens accountability of the government and decreases the risk of maintaining unsustainable policies.
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Modelling Countercyclical Fiscal Policy
10 Dec 2014
RDP
2014-02
RDP 2014-02: Fiscal Policy and the Inflation Target 3. Modelling Countercyclical Fiscal Policy. ... The role of a policy reaction function (whether fiscal or monetary) is sometimes misunderstood.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2014/2014-02/modelling-countercyclical-fiscal-policy.html
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China's Evolving Monetary Policy Framework in International Context
1 Dec 2019
RDP
2019-11
Accountability and transparency – the central bank is held accountable by lawmakers for meeting these monetary policy objectives. ... As discussed below, the mechanisms for transparency are more similar than those for accountability per se.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2019/2019-11/full.html
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The Real Effects of Debt Covenants: Evidence from Australia
25 Oct 2022
RDP
2022-05
As discussed earlier, this could be due to the trend towards greater transparency in corporate reporting or an increase in the usage of covenants in debt contracts (or both).
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2022/2022-05/full.html
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Gauging the Uncertainty of the Economic Outlook Using Historical Forecasting Errors: The Federal Reserve's Approach
1 Feb 2017
RDP
2017-01
Publishing estimates of uncertainty can also enhance a central bank's transparency, credibility, and accountability. ... Fiscal policy represents another area where conditioning assumptions could have implications for using historical forecast errors to
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What Happened?
1 May 1998
RDP
9805
The individual-country reserve figures may also miss co-ordinated intervention undertaken in support of currencies by (third party) monetary authorities or intervention that is funded through a country's fiscal ... The performance criteria on monetary
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/1998/1998-05/what-happened.html
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Conclusions
31 Dec 2005
RDP
2005-04
In the former, policy-makers would be aware that fiscal policy could be called upon, if necessary, to aid in stimulating the economy and forestalling any risk of deflation becoming entrenched. ... Notwithstanding these caveats, our framework has the twin
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2005/2005-04/conclusions.html
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The Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy in an Economy with Anticipatory Wage Contracts
1 Aug 1986
RDP
8611
Research Discussion Papers contain the results of economic research within the Reserve Bank
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/1986/8611.html
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What Do Financial Market Data Tell Us about Monetary Policy Transparency?
1 May 2003
RDP
2003-05
Research Discussion Papers contain the results of economic research within the Reserve Bank
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2003/2003-05.html
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Fiscal Policy
31 Dec 2011
RDP
2011-07
Using discretionary fiscal policy was seen as too difficult from both a political and implementation perspective. ... It was also the largest discretionary easing of fiscal policy in at least two decades.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2011/2011-07/fiscal-policy.html
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The Fiscal Deficit and the Current Account: Twins or Distant Relatives?
1 Dec 1988
RDP
8813
Research Discussion Papers contain the results of economic research within the Reserve Bank
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/1988/8813.html
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