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This paper discusses the role of a country’s fiscal stance in weakening the financial underpinnings of an open economy with a quasi-fixed nominal exchange rate, even where the overall fiscal deficit remains unchanged, or even narrows. The paper cites the role of expanding government operations in reducing the relative price of traded goods. A marked increase in government expenditure and taxation is associated with increased production costs, excess demand for nontraded goods, and a deterioration in the financial health of the traded goods sector. The paper demonstrates that, in contrast to the current economic situation in Mexico, the period leading to the 1994 crisis closely parallels these stylized facts.

Banks and Banking --- Macroeconomics --- Money and Monetary Policy --- Public Finance --- Policy Objectives --- Policy Designs and Consistency --- Policy Coordination --- Fiscal Policy --- Studies of Particular Policy Episodes --- International Factor Movements and International Business: General --- Current Account Adjustment --- Short-term Capital Movements --- Open Economy Macroeconomics --- Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General --- Macroeconomics: Consumption --- Saving --- Wealth --- National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General --- Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects --- Banks --- Depository Institutions --- Micro Finance Institutions --- Mortgages --- Monetary economics --- Public finance & taxation --- Finance --- Banking --- Bank credit --- Private savings --- Expenditure --- Real interest rates --- Commercial banks --- Money --- National accounts --- Financial services --- Financial institutions --- Credit --- Saving and investment --- Expenditures, Public --- Interest rates --- Banks and banking --- Mexico