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This paper studies regional output asymmetries following U.S. federal tax shocks. We estimate a vector autoregressive … model for each U.S. state, utilizing the exogenous tax shock series recently proposed by Romer and Romer (2010) and find … differences in the magnitude of regional tax multipliers suggests that industry composition of output and sociodemographic …
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This paper provides new evidence on the effects of government spending shocks and the fiscal transmission mechanism in the euro area for the period 1980-2008. Our contribution is two-fold. First, we investigate changes in the macroeconomic impact of government spending shocks using time-varying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325831
In this paper, we revisit the effects of government spending shocks on private consumption within an estimated New-Keynesian DSGE model of the euro area featuring non-Ricardian households. Employing Bayesian inference methods, we show that the presence of non-Ricardian households is in general...
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deficits and lower output in the medium and long term. Tax increases are found to drag economic activity in the medium term …
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disagrees on even the qualitative response of key macroeconomic variables to government spending and tax shocks. We provide new … diverging results as regards the effects of tax shocks, with the estimated effects ranging from non-distortionary to strongly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604923
This paper provides new evidence on the effects of government spending shocks and the fiscal transmission mechanism in the euro area for the period 1980-2008. Our contribution is two-fold. First, we investigate changes in the macroeconomic impact of government spending shocks using time-varying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605265
This paper investigates how expectations about future government spending affect the transmission of fiscal policy shocks. We study the effects of two different types of government spending shocks in the United States: (i) spending shocks that are accompanied by an expected reversal of public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605407
This paper studies the short-run macroeconomic effects of legislated tax changes in Germany using a vector … autoregression (VAR) approach. Identification of the tax shock follows the narrative approach recently proposed by Romer and Romer … monetary policy reaction following announcement of the tax policy. In response to a 1 percent increase in the tax-to-GDP ratio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286390