Ben Zeev, Nadav; Ramey, Valerie A.; Zubairy, Sarah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We analyze whether government spending multipliers differ by the sign of the shock. Using aggregate historical U.S. data, we apply Ben Zeev's (2020) nonlinear diagnostic tests and find evidence of nonlinearities in the impulse response functions of both government spending and GDP. We then...
