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Level, slope, curvature of the sovereign yield curve, and fiscal behaviour
Afonso, António; Martins, Manuel M.F. - 2010
We study fiscal behaviour and the sovereign yield curve in the U.S. and Germany in the period 1981:I-2009:IV. The latent factors, level, slope and curvature, obtained with the Kalman filter, are used in a VAR with macro and fiscal variables, controlling for financial stress conditions. In the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605322
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Fiscal developments and financial stress: a threshold VAR analysis
Afonso, António; Baxa, Jaromír; Slavík, Michal - 2011
economic growth to a fiscal shock are mostly positive in both financial stress regimes; (iii) financial stress has a negative … effect on output growth and worsens the fiscal position; (iv) the nonlinearity in the response of output growth to a fiscal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605365
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Fiscal Developments and Financial Stress : A Threshold VAR Analysis
Afonso, António - 2011
economic growth to a fiscal shock are mostly positive in both financial stress regimes; (iii) financial stress has a negative … effect on output growth and worsens the fiscal position; (iv) the nonlinearity in the response of output growth to a fiscal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128285
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Level, Slope, Curvature of the Sovereign Yield Curve, and Fiscal Behaviour
Afonso, António - 2010
We study fiscal behaviour and the sovereign yield curve in the U.S. and Germany in the period 1981:I-2009:IV. The latent factors, level, slope and curvature, obtained with the Kalman filter, are used in a VAR with macro and fiscal variables, controlling for financial stress conditions. In the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135491
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Quality of public finances and growth
Afonso, António; Ebert, Werner; Schuknecht, Ludger; … - 2005
public expenditure and its financing via revenue and deficits, and economic growth. We review the various channels through … which public finances affect growth and its underlying determinants (institutional framework, employment, savings and … surveys the empirical findings on the impact of fiscal variables on sustained economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604484
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Fiscal policy and growth: do financial crises make a difference?
Afonso, António; Grüner, Hans Peter; Kolerus, Christina - 2010
In this paper we assess to what extent in the existence of a financial crisis, government spending can contribute to mitigate economic downturns in the short run and whether such impact differs in crisis and non crisis times. We use panel analysis for a set of OECD and non-OECD countries for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605263
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Economic performance and government size
Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar - 2011
We construct a growth model with an explicit government role, where more government resources reduce the optimal level …-2008, we use different proxies for government size and institutional quality. Our results, consistent with the presented growth … model, show a negative effect of the size of government on growth. Similarly, institutional quality has a positive impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605444
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Minimum wage and collective bargaining shocks : a narrative database for advanced economies
Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venter, Zoe - In: IZA journal of labor policy 13 (2023) 1, pp. 1-18
This paper presents and describes a new database of major minimum wage and collective bargaining (CB) shocks covering 26 advanced economies over the period 1970-2020. The main advantage of this dataset is the precise identification of the nature and date of major shocks, which is valuable in...
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