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Fiscal policies, the current account and Ricardian equivalence

Nickel, Christiane (contributor); … - 2008

This paper analyses the empirical relationship between fiscal policy and the current account of the balance of payments and considers how Ricardian equivalence changes this relationship. To do so, we estimate a dynamic panel threshold model for 22 industrialised countries in which the...

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The COVID-19 consumption game-changer : evidence from a large-scale multi-country survey

Hodbod, Alexander; Hommes, Cars H.; Huber, Stefanie J.; … - 2021

in consumption in five key sectors: tourism, hospitality, services, retail, and public transports. We identify a large …-term sectoral consumption shifts may occur. …

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Tracking growth in the euro area subject to a dimensionality problem

Comunale, Mariarosaria; Mongelli, Francesco Paolo - 2021

We investigate which variables have supported growth in the euro area over the last 30 years. This is a challenging task due to dimensionality problems: a large set of potential determinants, limited data, and the prospect that some variables could be non-stationary. We assemble a set of 35...

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Cyclical drivers of euro area consumption : what can we learn from durable goods?

Casalis, André; Krustev, Georgi - 2020

We study the cyclical dynamics of consumption in the euro area (EA) and the large EA countries by distinguishing … cross-country heterogeneity in how different factors (including durable-specific ones) explain consumption; (iii) the … strength of spillovers from durable to nondurable consumption, as predicted by theory, is empirically correlated with how much …

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The asymmetric adjustment of global imbalances : myth or fact?

Dausà, Neus; Stracca, Livio - 2023

We revisit the so-called "secular international problem", whereby the adjustment of current account imbalances purportedly falls entirely on the shoulders of deficit countries. We introduce a stylised model to rationalise an asymmetric counter-cyclical policy reaction that is stronger for...

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Fiscal policy and growth : do financial crises make a difference?

Afonso, António; Grüner, Hans Peter; Kolerus, Christina - 2010

In this paper we assess to what extent in the existence of a financial crisis, government spending can contribute to mitigate economic downturns in the short run and whether such impact differs in crisis and non crisis times. We use panel analysis for a set of OECD and non-OECD countries for the...

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Household spending and fiscal support during theCOVID-19 pandemic : insights from a new consumer survey

Georgarakos, Dimitris; Kenny, Geoff - 2022

This paper introduces the Consumer Expectations Survey (CES), a new online, high frequency panel survey of euro area consumers' expectations and behaviour. The paper also investigates whether public perceptions about fiscal support measures introduced during the pandemic have influenced spending...

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Household spending out of a tax rebate : Italian "€80 tax bonus"

Neri, Andrea; Rondinelli, Concetta; Scoccianti, Filippo - 2017

We estimate the consumption response of Italian households to the "Euro80 tax bonus" intro-duced in 2014, using the … their monthly consumption of food and means of transportation by about Euro20 and Euro30, respectively, about 50-60 per cent … mechanism behind our results we then simulate an overlapping generations model of household consumption: the marginal propensity …

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Revenue- versus spending-based consolidation plans : the role of follow-up

Beetsma, Roel; Furtuna, Oana; Giuliodori, Massimo - 2018

The literature on fiscal multipliers finds that spending-based fiscal consolidations tend to have more benign macro-economic consequences than revenue-based consolidations. By directly comparing ex-post data with consolidation plans, we present evidence of a systematically weaker follow-up of...

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House prices and monetary policy in the euro area : evidence from structural VARs

Nocera, Andrea; Roma, Moreno - 2017

policy and the challenges they pose in the process of real and nominal convergence in the Eurozone. Among the main results …, we find a comparatively stronger housing wealth effect on consumption in Ireland and Spain. We provide new evidence in …

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