We study the effects of government spending by using a structural, large dimensional, dynamic factor model. We find that the government spending shock is non-fundamental for the variables commonly used in the structural VAR literature, so that its impulse response functions cannot be...

Restoring economic growth is a challenge for the Romanian government that have to apply fiscal and budgetary measures in order to restore the positive path of the GDP without deteriorating the public finances sustainability. Therefore, it is necessary to identify based on historic data the...

We identify government spending news and surprise shocks using a novel identification based on the Survey of Professional Forecasters. News shocks lead to an increase of the interest rate, a real appreciation of US dollar and a worsening of the trade balance. The opposite is found for the...