This paper examines two methods of calculating fiscal impulses, those of the IMF and the OECD. Second, fiscal impulse measures are useful for international comparisons of fiscal policy changes, to judge within a multilateral surveillance exercise, for example, whether fiscal policy has changed over time. First, insofar as they measure the effects of government’s fiscal policies on budget outcomes, they are useful for monitoring the performance of these policies. Properly constructed fiscal impulse measures are useful for two purposes. Fiscal impulses have often been confused with fiscal policy multipliers, which attempt to measure the effects of changes in fiscal policy on economic activity. It ignores changes in the fiscal balance that are attributed to other, nonfiscal, origins. †Aired as a special three-hour event to coincide with the release of the Miami Vice film.Conceptually, the fiscal impulse is measured as the change in the government budget balance resulting from changes in government expenditure and tax policies. Teleplay: Dennis Cooper & Allan Weisbecker " Calderone's Return (Part II)/Calderone's Demise" " Calderone's Return (Part I)/The Hit List" Miami Vice's year end rating is #28 for the first season, but the show's popularity increased in the summer of 1985 when the reruns were aired.Curiously, this was not corrected on recent DVD releases of the show, despite being acknowledged as an error by producers. The version of the " Miami Vice Theme" used in these episodes is also incorrectly mixed and is missing the distinctive synthesised guitar hook. The opening credit sequence is different during the Rodriguez episodes than with the Castillo episodes.On DVD releases of season 1, all episodes are in stereo. It was only during 1985 summer reruns that episodes began to be shown in stereo.