"multiplier effect": when a shock drives up the price of food, exporters respond by imposing restrictions while importers wind … prediction of the theory with a new dataset that comprises monthly information on trade measures across 77 countries and 33 food … products for the period 2008-11, finding evidence of a multiplier effect in food trade policy. These findings contribute to …

propose a simple method—dubbed the “bucket approach” to come up with reasonable multiplier estimates. The approach bunches … countries into groups (or “buckets”) with similar multiplier values, based on their characteristics. It also takes into account …

This paper investigates how macroeconomic uncertainty affects the fiscal multiplier of public investment. In theory …, uncertainty can reduce the multiplier if the private sector becomes more cautious and does not respond to the fiscal stimulus …. Conversely, it can increase the fiscal multiplier if public investment shocks improve private agents' expectations about future …

theory (Myers 1977). We also find that the effect of public investment on corporate investment is much weaker for firms that …

-run capital flows in both theory and in the data. For this purpose, we develop a two region overlapping generations model where …