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Automatic Stabilizer

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Automatic Stabilizer
An economic policy or program that increases or decreases automatically to offset the current economic trend without government assistance.

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An example of such a policy would be unemployment insurance.


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In the United States, for example, the significant role played by the central government in the collection of taxes and pattern of spending means that fiscal policy provides something of a regional automatic stabilizer, raising funds in one strong region and spending them in weaker regions.
Indeed, this decision allowed fiscal policy to play the role of automatic stabilizer for the first time in three years and contributed in no small way to the recovery of the Japanese economy in 2003.
The automatic stabilizer in current law is of limited effectiveness.
 
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