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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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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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We estimate the subnational employment and GDP multiplier of Brazil's 2020 federal cash transfers to vulnerable households. Using two-stage least squares regressions we estimate a formal employment multiplier and then apply an analytical transformation to recover an implied GDP multiplier in the...
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employment during periods of high uncertainty, with multipliers above 2, and the larger multipliers are not driven by economic …
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This paper empirically examines the effects of fiscal policy measures during the COVID-19 pandemic, using a novel database of daily fiscal policy announcements-classified by type of fiscal measure-and high-frequency economic indicators for 52 countries from January 1 to December 31, 2020. The...
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interpretation is that fiscal multipliers were substantially higher than implicitly assumed by forecasters. The weaker relation in … more recent years may reflect in part learning by forecasters and in part smaller multipliers than in the early years of …
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