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We estimate the employment effect of a large fiscal stimulus in Spain (PlanE), in which the national government … the multiplier falls in the lower range of previous work …
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positive multiplier for vacancies and employment. The latter result is in sharp contrast to models in which some households do … generate positive and significant effects on consumption and output, although the fiscal output (employment) multiplier …
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size of the fiscal multiplier remains a challenge. Indeed, the quest to estimate a unique fiscal multiplier is probably an … ill-posed one. The magnitude of the multiplier may well depend on country- and time-specific characteristics of the fiscal … stance under scrutiny. In this paper, we estimate state-specific multipliers for Spain depending on the state of the economy …
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The evolution of Regional and Local governments' spending in Spain is currently under close scrutiny by national and …
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We analyze the impact of fiscal shocks on the Spanish effective exchange rate over the period 1981-2008 using a standard structural VAR framework. We show that government spending brings about positive output responses, jointly with real appreciation. Such real appreciation is explained by...
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We document that fiscal multipliers depend on the age structure of the population. Using the variation in military spending and birth rates across U.S. states, we show that local fiscal multipliers increase with the share of young people in total population. We rationalize this fact with a...
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This paper studies the differences between fiscal multipliers in OECD economies across the credit cycle. Impulse responses are obtained using a state-dependent model with direct projections, in which multipliers depend on the state of credit markets. Identification of the effects of fiscal...
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This paper studies the effects of delegating control of sovereign debt issuance to an independent authority in a monetary union where public spending decisions are decentralized. The model assumes that no policy makers are capable of commitment to a rule. However, consistent with Rogoff (1985)...
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We document a secular increase in the share of purchases from the private sector in government consumption spending: over time the government purchases relatively more private-sector goods, and relies less on its own production of value added. We build a general equilibrium model in which...
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multiplier is between 0 and 1, while increases in transfers generate a multiplier effect above 1 …
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