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COVID-19 private pension withdrawals and unemployment tenures
Sainsbury, Tristram; Breunig, Robert; Watson, Timothy - 2022
additional pandemic fiscal expenditure. …
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Fiscal incidence on the island : Grenada's fiscal system and its incidence
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Gómez Aliaga, Guillermo; … - 2024
who bears the burden of taxation and benefits from transfers and of how Grenada's fiscal system can improve its …
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Fiscal multipliers in the COVID-19 recession
Auerbach, Alan J.; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; McCrory, Peter B. - 2021
In response to the record-breaking COVID19 recession, many governments have adopted unprecedented fiscal stimuli. While countercyclical fiscal policy is effective in fighting conventional recessions, little is known about the effectiveness of fiscal policy in the current environment with...
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The dynamic response of municipal budgets to revenue shocks
Helm, Ines; Stuhler, Jan - 2021
We study the fiscal and tax response to intergovernmental grants, exploiting quasi-experimental variation within Germany's fiscal equalization scheme triggered by Census revisions of official population counts. Municipal budgets do not adjust instantly. Instead, spending and investments adapt...
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The impact of government spending on GDP in a remitting country
Al-Abri, Almukhtar S.; Genc, Ismail H.; Naufal, George - 2018
The literature on remittances is large and growing. However, its focus has mainly been on the effects of remittance inflows on the receiving economies. Little has been done on the sending economies. In this paper, we use data from Saudi Arabia, one of the top remitting countries in the world, to...
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Government deficit shocks and Okun's coefficient volatility : new insights on the austerity versus growth debate
Binh Thai Pham; Sala, Hector - 2019
This paper connects two salient economic features: (i) Fiscal shocks have asymmetric effects across business cycle phases (Gechert et al., 2019); (ii) Okun's coefficient is time varying and may be unstable. The intertwined dynamic behavior of fiscal shocks and unemployment-output trade-offs are...
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Fiscal effects of minimum wages : an analysis for Germany
Bauer, Thomas K.; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra; … - 2008
result in a significant fiscal burden, due to increased expenditures for unemployment benefits and decreased revenues from …
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On the relationship between public and private investment in the euro area
Dreger, Christian; Reimers, Hans-Eggert - 2014
This paper explores the long run relationship between public and private investment in the euro area in terms of capital stocks and gross investment flows. Panel techniques ac-counting for international spillovers are employed. While private and public capital stocks are cointegrated, the...
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Public expenditure, demography and growth : theory and evidence from India
Pranab Kumar Das; Kar, Saibal - 2016
endogenous growth model applied to the Indian macroeconomic data, as to whether public expenditures in education, health and …. We deploy a Structural Vector Autoregressive Model on data for shares of public expenditure on education and health as …, etc. Importantly, we find that a rise in expenditure on health imparts a positive impact on the working age population …
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Regional consumption responses and the aggregate fiscal multiplier
Dupor, Bill; Karabarbounis, Marios; Kudlyak, Marianna; … - 2022
We use regional variation in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009-2012) to analyze the effect of government spending on consumer spending. Our consumption data come from household-level retail purchases in the Nielsen scanner data and auto purchases from Equifax credit balances. We...
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