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Post-Thatcher fiscal strategies in the UK : an interpretation

Hughes Hallett, Andrew (contributor) - 2004

Fiscal policy in Britain has changed radically since the Keynesianism of the 1960s and 1970s. After a passive period under monetarism of the 1980s, fiscal policy is said to have adopted a leadership role with long term objectives (low debt, the provision of public services/ investment, and...

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The impact of containment measures and monetary and fiscal responses on US financial markets during the Covid-19 pandemic

Abakah, Emmanuel Joel Aikins; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2021

This paper analyses the effects of containment measures and monetary and fiscal responses on US financial markets during the Covid-19 pandemic. More specifically, it applies fractional integration methods to analyse their impact on the daily S&P500, the US Treasury Bond Index (USTB), the S&P...

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The Covid-19 pandemic, policy responses and stock markets in the G20

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Kang, Woo-Young; Spagnolo, Fabio - 2021

This paper analyses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on stock market returns and their volatility in the case of the G20 countries. In contrast to the existing empirical literature, which typically focuses only on either Covid-19 deaths or lockdown policies, our analysis is based on a...

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To react or not? : fiscal policy, volatility and welfare in the EU-3

Malley, James R. (contributor); … - 2007

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Tax smoothing in a business cycle model with capital-skill complementarity

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Asimakopoulos, Stylianos; … - 2014

public consumption as well as total factor and capital equipment productivity. Our main finding is that an empirically …

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Electoral uncertainty, fiscal policies & growth : theory and evidence from Germany, the UK and the US

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Malley, James R.; … - 2003

between public consumption and production services. The main theoretical prediction is that forward-looking incumbents, with … productivity of public production services, the weight which households place on public consumption services relative to private … consumption and the time discount rate. Moreover, we find that changes in electoral uncertainty produce the longest lasting …

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Fiscal multipliers in a two-sector search and matching model

Angelopulos, Kōnstantinos; Jiang, Wei; Malley, James R. - 2015

This paper evaluates the effects of policy interventions on sectoral labour markets and the aggregate economy in a business cycle model with search and matching frictions. We extend the canonical model by including capital-skill complementarity in production, labour markets with skilled and...

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Electoral uncertainty, fiscal policy and macroeconomic fluctuations

Malley, James R. (contributor); … - 2005

In this paper we study the link between elections, fiscal policy and aggregate fluctuations. The set-up is a stylized dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model incorporating both technology and political re-election shocks. The later are incorporated via a two-party model with elections. The...

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Fiscal sustainability, fiscal reactions, pitfalls and determinants

Afonso, António; Coelho, José Carlos - 2022

We examine the sustainability of public finances and its determinants for 19 Eurozone countries from 1995 to 2020. We conclude for the existence of panel cointegration between government revenues and expenditures; primary government balance and one-period lagged public debt-to-GDP ratio; and...

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The macroeconomic effects of funding U.S. infrastructure

Malley, James R.; Philippopulos, Apostolēs - 2022

multipliers above unity if infrastructure spending and rising public debt are financed by consumption, dividend and labour income … taxes and below one for corporate taxes. We also show that except for the consumption tax, the size of the multipliers …

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