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macroeconomic model which reproduces this observation. The model predicts that the fiscal multiplier takes conventional values …
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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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responses to an aggregate fiscal multiplier using a multi-region, New Keynesian model with heterogeneous agents, incomplete … markets, and trade linkages. Our model is consistent with the estimated positive local multiplier, a result that distinguishes … multiplier is twice as large as the local multiplier because trade linkages propagate the effect of government spending across …
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Several contributions have recently assessed the size of fiscal multipliers both in RBC models and New Keynesian models. None of the studies considers a model with frictional labour markets which is a crucial element, particularly at times in which much of the fiscal stimulus has been directed...
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.32 percentage points from the UI extension. We show that a moderately sized fiscal multiplier can rationalize our findings with the …
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Arabia, one of the top remitting countries in the world, to identify the impact of government spending on Saudi Arabia's real …
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This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the social and political costs of a GREXIT, but also of a continuing austerity policy. It proposes a reform policy fostering growth in Greece and discusses the role of conditionality....
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This paper characterizes long-run and short-run optimal fiscal policy in the labor selection framework. In a calibrated non-Ramsey decentralized equilibrium, labor market volatility is inefficient. Keeping fixed the structural parameters, the Ramsey government achieves efficient labor market...
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We investigate emigrant self-selection according to institutional quality using up to 3,566 observations on bilateral migration flows from 77 countries over the 1990-2000 period. We relate these flows to differences in political and economic institutions. We improve and expand upon previous...
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This paper uses an overlapping generations model with international labor mobility and a politically responsive fiscal policy to examine aging in developed and developing regions. Migrant workers change the political structure composed of young and elderly voters in both labor-receiving and...
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