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In this study, we analyze the cyclicality of fiscal policies in China during the period 1978-2013. We find that the cyclicality of local government spending in China significantly affects the cyclicality of total government spending. By employing both time-series and province-level panel data,...
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We provide a comprehensive survey of the recent literature on the link between productive government expenditure and … recommendations. Moreover, the inclusion of hitherto unexplored types of government expenditure, e. g., on the "rule of law", would be …
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We suggest a probabilistic voting model where voters' preferences for alternative public goods display habit formation. Current policies determine habit levels and in turn the future preferences of the voters. This allows the incumbent to act strategically in order to influence the probability...
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Using state-dependent local projection methods and historical U.S. data, we find that government spending multipliers are considerably larger in periods of private debt overhang. In particular, we find significant crowding-out of personal consumption and investment in low-debt states, resulting...
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inequality. In contrast to the conventional wisdom that the financing of additional expenditures by debt rather than taxes …
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, the expenditure associated with military build-ups affects primarily the defense sector so that the resulting multiplier … instrument: government relief expenditure in the wake of natural disasters which is more similar in its scope to general …
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We investigate the macroeconomic effects of government spending shocks in Korea. We compare results obtained with two alternative approaches: the narrative approach and Structural Vector-Autoregressive model (SVAR). We propose a new methodology for identifying exogenous and unexpected fiscal...
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We estimate the fiscal multiplier associated with shocks to government spending. We consider increases in government spending in the U.S. states in the wake of natural disasters to capture spending shocks that are both unexpected and unrelated to the preceding state of the economy. We find that...
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defense expenditures. On the revenue side, both direct and indirect taxation tend to decrease profits. However, a more … of different spending and taxation items. As far as public spending is concerned, our results strongly suggest that … capital expenditures are associated with higher profits, while expenditures on wages and salaries deteriorate profits. At the …
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Formal fiscal rules have been introduced in many countries throughout the world. While most studies focus on intra‐jurisdictional effects of fiscal rules, vertical impacts on the finances of other levels of governments have yet to be explored thoroughly. The paper investigates the influence of...
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