the degree of cyclicality of both macroeconomic policies during the past
twelve years. Monetary policy became countercyclical particularly in the
mid-nineties, while fiscal policy did some time before, exceptfor exceptional
periods in the early nineties.
Figure 4 depicts the deviations of inflation from the Central Bank's inflation
targets (started in January 1991) and the output gap since 1991. In
this case, the link between both variables becomes more evident since 1999,
a period of low growth and subsequent recovery