The Department of Economics at the College of Administration and Economics, University of Mosul, discussed the master’s thesis tagged “The impact of monetary variables on the government budget deficit: an analytical study in a number of developing countries with reference to Iraq for the period from 1990-2020”.

Part of it was attended by the Dean of the Faculty, Prof. Dr. Thaeir Ahmed Saadoon Al-Samman.

The current study presented by the student “Ahmed Abdul Sattar Younis” in the Department of Economics aimed to: Measuring and analyzing the impact of monetary variables on the public budget deficit in a number of developing countries with reference to Iraq for the period (1990-2021) and the study was based on the hypothesis that: There are monetary variables affecting the government budget deficit.

The study concluded that there is an overlap between fiscal and monetary policy tools, which casts a shadow on the basis that there is a reciprocal relationship between monetary variables (exchange rate, interest rate, inflation rate, money supply) and the public budget deficit. Second, the growing budget deficit makes monetary policy interventions with new monetary issuance and others a haven to limit the growing budget deficit.

The discussion committee was headed by Prof. Dr. Hashem Muhammad Al-Arkub, and the membership of Assistant Professor Dr. Zahraa Ahmed Tawfiq, and Assistant Professor Dr. Ziad Ezz El-Din Taha from the University of Tikrit, under the supervision and membership of Assistant Professor Dr. Saadoun Hussein Farhan.