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Managing households' expectations with salient economic policies

D'Acunto, Francesco; Hoang, Daniel; Weber, Michael - 2019 - This version: August 2019

consumption via managing inflation expectations based on the Euler equation. Unconventional fiscal policy uses trivial … announcements of future consumer-price increases to boost inflation expectations and consumption expenditure on impact. Instead …

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Unconventional fiscal policy, inflation expectations, and consumption expenditure

D'Acunto, Francesco; Hoang, Daniel; Weber, Michael - 2016

Unconventional fiscal policies incentivize households to accelerate consumption by generating future consumer price … study the causal effect of unconventional fiscal policies on consumption expenditure via the inflation-expectations channel … intratemporal substitution from non-durable to durable consumption. …

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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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How to finance climate change policies? : evidence from consumers' beliefs

D'Acunto, Francesco; Möhrle, Sascha; Neumeier, Florian; … - 2022

Climate change policies have been rising to the top of the global political agenda, but how should governments finance them? Public economists propose solutions based on economic theory, but their political feasibility depends on voters' support, and ordinary households often neglect economic...

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How did U.S. consumers use their stimulus payments?

Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2020

Act affected their consumption, saving and labor-supply decisions. Most respondents report that they primarily saved or …

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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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Fiscal adjustments and business cycle synchronization

Agnello, Luca; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sousa, Ricardo M. - 2013

Using a panel of annual data for 20 countries we show that synchronized fiscal consolidation (stimulus) programmes in different countries make their business cycles more closely linked, especially in the case of fiscal adjustments lasting 2 or 3 years. We also find: (i) little evidence of...

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Budgetary constrained governments : drivers of time varying fiscal sustainability in OECD countries

Afonso, António; Coelho, José Carlos - 2024

We assess the drivers of fiscal sustainability in 20 OECD economies between 1950 and 2019. We find stable long-term relationships between government revenues and expenditures as well as between the primary budget balance and past public debt ratio for the full panel. Performing an expanding...

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