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Unconventional Fiscal Policy
D'Acunto, Francesco; Hoang, Daniel; Weber, Michael - 2021
Unconventional fiscal policy uses announcements of future increases in consumption taxes to generate inflation expectations and accelerate consumption expenditure. It is budget neutral and time consistent. We provide preliminary evidence for the effectiveness of such policies using changes in...
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Trade, Inequality and Distribution-Neutral Fiscal Policy – An Elementary Framework
Marjit, Sugata - 2017
Theoretical discussion on compensating mechanisms involving the Pareto criterion that address inequality rather than absolute welfare is non-existent in trade literature. In a simple HOS model we consider tax-transfer policies that keep the pre-trade degree of inequality unchanged between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954364
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Unit sales and price effects of pre-announced consumption tax reforms : micro-level evidence from European VAT
Büttner, Thiess; Madzharova, Boryana - 2019
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Evolving contours of centre-state fiscal relations : inconsistencies, ad-hocism and centralization
Srivastava, Dinesh Kumar - 2023
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Changing patterns of domestic and cross-border fiscal policy multipliers in Europe and the US
Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès (contributor);  … - 2006
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Fiscal rules and compliance expectations : evidence for the German debt brake
Heinemann, Friedrich; Janeba, Eckhard; Schröder, Christoph - 2014
Fiscal rules have become popular to limit deficits and high debt burdens in industrialized countries. A growing literature examines their impact based on aggregate fiscal performance. So far, no evidence exists on how fiscal rules influence deficit expectations of fiscal policy makers. In the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357588
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Sustainability of German Fiscal Policy and Public Debt : Historical and Time Series Evidence for the Period 1850-2010
Burret, Heiko - 2013
default. Due to a multitude of large scale events in its past, Germany is far from being an exception: In fact, Germany … Germany's public finances against the standard theoretical back‐ground using a unique database, retrieved from multiple …, contradicting the historical perception of Germany as the poster child of European public finance. Given these corresponding breaks …
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Manipulating Fiscal Forecasts : Evidence from the German States
Kauder, Bjoern - 2017
We examine whether German state governments manipulated fiscal forecasts before elections. Our data set includes three fiscal measures over the period 1980-2014. The results do not show that electoral motives influenced fiscal forecasts in West German states. By contrast, East German state...
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Panel Cointegration Tests on the Fiscal Sustainability of German Laender
Burret, Heiko - 2014
newly compiled database covering the years 1950‐2011. Unlike previous studies on Germany, we analyze fiscal sustainability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047349
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Modeling Fiscal Sustainability in Dynamic Macro-Panels with Heterogeneous Effects : Evidence from German Federal States
Feld, Lars P. - 2018
In this paper, we extend Henning Bohn's (2008) fiscal sustainability test by allowing for slope heterogeneity and cross-sectional dependence (CD). In particular, our econometric approach is the first that allows fiscal reaction functions (FRF) to capture unobserved heterogeneous effects from...
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