The Fiscal Response to the Great Recession: Steps Taken, Paths Rejected, and Lessons for Next Time

Abstract

Part of a series of XX papers -RESPONDING to the GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: What We Did and Why We Did It, presented on September 11-12, 2018, at the Hutchins Center of the Brookings Institute and co-sponsored by the Yale Program on Financial Stability, in light of the 10th Anniversary of the Global Financial Crisis