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We estimate the subnational employment and GDP multiplier of Brazil's 2020 federal cash transfers to vulnerable …
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We find historical fiscal multipliers for Brazil around 0.5, larger than what existing literature typically identifies … for the average emerging market. However, spending and public credit multipliers seem to have dropped to near zero since … years. By contrast, revenue multipliers have remained broadly stable. We conclude that fiscal consolidations based on …
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Not anytime soon. Using a novel dataset covering 127 countries and spanning two centuries, we find evidence for an energy Kuznets curve, with an initial decline of energy demand at low levels of per capita income followed by stages of acceleration and then saturation at high-income levels....
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multipliers for the United States. With these results, it computes the cumulative multiplier of Ramey and Zubairy (2018), now … common in the literature. It finds that, contrary to the peak and through multipliers reported by BP, the cumulative tax … results suggest that the fiscal multipliers vary significantly across countries, and in some cases multipliers are larger than …
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Lockdowns resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic have reduced overall energy demand but electricity generation from renewable sources has been resilient. While this partly reflects the trend increase in renewables, the empirical analysis presented in this paper highlights that recessions result in...
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This paper studies how the effects of government spending vary with the economic environment. Using a panel of OECD countries, we identify fiscal shocks as residuals from an estimated spending rule and trace their macroeconomic impact under different conditions regarding the exchange rate...
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We analyze the welfare multipliers of public spending (the consumption equivalent change in welfare for one dollar … change in public spending) in a DSGE model. The welfare multipliers of public infrastructure investment are positive if … infrastructure is sufficiently effective. When the medium-term output multipliers are consistent with the empirical estimates (1 …
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home bias-play a key role in determining the effects of fiscal policy and related multipliers in these countries. External …
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