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From a Keynesian point of view, a balanced budget in the public sector is achieved when the government has enough fiscal discipline to be able to equate the revenues with expenditure over the business cycles. In other words, a government's budget is balanced if its income is equal to its expenditure. This allows for a deficit in periods of low economic prospects that however needs to be matched by a surplus in periods of high economic activity. This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Look up budget in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... < [[[[math>Insert formula here</math>The public sector is that part of economic and administrative life that deals with the delivery of goods and services by and for the [[government </math></math></math></math> Direct administration funded through taxation; the delivering organisation generally has no specific requirement to meet commercial... Revenue is a U.S. business term for the amount of money that a company earns from its activities in a given period, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers. ... suck my doodle ... // [edit] Introduction [edit] Definition If we were to take snapshots of an economy at different points in time, no two photos would look alike. ... A budget deficit occurs when an entity (often a government) spends more money than it takes in. ... A budget deficit occurs when an entity (often a government) spends more money than it takes in. ...


Balanced Budget Multiplier

Because of the multiplier effect , it is possible to change aggregate demand (Y) keeping a balanced budget. Government increases expenditure (G), financing it by an increase in taxes (T). Since only part of the money taken away from households would have actually been used in the economy, the change in consumer expenditure will be smaller than the change in taxes. Therefore the money which would have been saved by households is instead injected into the economy, itself becoming part of the multiplier process. In general, a change in the balanced budget will change aggregate demand by an amount equal to the change in spending.


Y_1 = c_0 + c_1 left ( Y - T right ) + I + G


Y_1 = frac {1} {1 - c_1} left ( c_0 + I + G - c_1 T right )


G = G + alpha ,


T = T + alpha ,


Y_2 = frac {1} {1 - c_1} left ( c_0 + I + left ( G + alpha right ) - c_1 left ( T + alpha right ) right )


Delta Y = Y_2 - Y_1 = frac {alpha} {1 - c_1} left ( 1 - c_1 right ) = alpha


Delta T - Delta G = alpha - alpha = 0 ,


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