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Explain how policy lags are more of a problem for fiscal policy compared to monetary policy.
Policy lags are often different for monetary policy than for
fiscal policy, particularly in lags within.
There are legislative lags because government decisions aren't
instantaneous.
The use of any stabilization policy is delayed between the
occurrence of an economic issue, such as a recession of the
business cycle or the emergence of inflation, and the full effect
of the policy to fix the problem
Fiscal policy and, of course, changes in government spending
that directly affect aggregate demand affect revenue faster than
monetary policy. While fiscal policy has a shorter external lag, it
has a significantly longer delay within it. Fiscal policy has a
shorter external lag, despite having a greater gap within than
monetary policy.
Changes in government spending are having an immediate effect on
economic production. Monetary policy influences consumer spending
by changing the money supply and interest rate, which is gradually
reacting to such a shift.
The long slump in fiscal policy makes stabilization less useful and means that fiscal policy continues to be used relatively infrequently to seek to stabilize the economy