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private consumption confirms that fiscal policy changes - both contractions and expansions - can have non-Keynesian effects if … consumption, but to some extent also from changes in taxes and transfers. The latter result is also consistent with the Swedish … experience, where a decrease in net taxes (with almost no change in public consumption) was associated with a dramatic fall in …
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in net taxes has no effect on national saving during large fiscal contractions or expansions. For government consumption …
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Several recent studies imply that the response of national saving to fiscal policy is non-monotonic. In this paper, we use two data sets to search for the circumstances in which such non-monotonic responses arise: one refers to a sample of OECD countries, as in previous studies, and one to a...
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working relatively few (weekly) hours, for instance, suffer from a spending shock of the type we analyzed: their consumption …
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"Studying the recent experience of Brazil the paper explains how default risk is at the centre of the mechanism through which an emerging market central bank that targets inflation might lose control of inflation--in other words of the mechanism through which the economy might move from a regime...
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There are two main forces behind the large U.S. current account deficits. First, an increase in the U.S. demand for foreign goods. Second, an increase in the foreign demand for U.S. assets. Both forces have contributed to steadily increasing current account deficits since the mid--1990s. This...
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Two main forces lie behind the large U.S. current account deficits: an increase in U.S. demand for foreign goods and an increase in foreign demand for U.S. assets. Both have contributed to steadily increasing current account deficits since the mid-1990s, accompanied by a real dollar appreciation...
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There are two main forces behind the large US current account deficits. First, an increase in the US demand for foreign goods. Second, an increase in the foreign demand for US assets. Both forces have contributed to steadily increasing current account deficits since the mid-1990s. This increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005788973