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Fiscal Multipliers and the Labour Market in the Open Economy

Faia, Ester - 2010

Several contributions have recently assessed the size of fiscal multipliers both in RBC models and New Keynesian models. None of the studies considers a model with frictional labour markets which is a crucial element, particularly at times in which much of the fiscal stimulus has been directed...

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Regional Consumption Responses and the Aggregate Fiscal Multiplier

Dupor, Bill; Karabarbounis, Marios; Kudlyak, Marianna; … - 2022

responses to an aggregate fiscal multiplier using a multi-region, New Keynesian model with heterogeneous agents, incomplete … markets, and trade linkages. Our model is consistent with the estimated positive local multiplier, a result that distinguishes … multiplier is twice as large as the local multiplier because trade linkages propagate the effect of government spending across …

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Demand Stimulus as Social Policy

Auerbach, Alan J.; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Murphy, Daniel - 2022

We exploit a panel of city-level data with rich demographic information to estimate the distributional effects of Department of Defense spending and its effects on a range of social outcomes. The income generated by defense spending accrues predominantly to households without a bachelor's...

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Fiscal Policy, Sovereign Default, and Bailouts

Juessen, Falko - 2013

This paper examines fiscal policy without commitment and the effects of conditional bailout loans. The government relies on distortionary taxation and decides between full debt repayment and costly default. It tends to overborrow due to myopia, which induces default to be a relevant policy...

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Inequality in EU Crisis Countries : How Effective Were Automatic Stabilisers?

Callan, Tim - 2018

The Great Recession and the widespread adoption of fiscal austerity policies have heightened concern about inequality and how well tax-benefit systems redistribute. We examine how the distribution of income in the EU countries which were hardest hit during the recession evolved over this time....

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The Crisis, Policy Reactions and Attitudes to Globalization and Jobs

Bell, David N.F. - 2011

We consider the effects of the financial crisis and subsequent recession on world labour markets. It begins by cataloguing the adverse effects on output of the sudden collapse in demand brought about by the financial crisis in what has come to be called the Great Recession. Next we look at the...

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The Great Recession of 2008-2009 : Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses

Verick, Sher - 2010

Starting in mid-2007, the global financial crisis quickly metamorphosed from the bursting of the housing bubble in the US to the worst recession the world has witnessed for over six decades. Through an in-depth review of the crisis in terms of the causes, consequences and policy responses, this...

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The Social Multiplier and Labour Market Participation of Mothers

Maurin, Eric; Moschion, Julie - 2021

A mother's decision to participate in the labour market is correlated with those of the other mothers living in the same neighbourhood. This paper studies the extent to which this is causal. An identification problem exists because mothers with similar characteristics are often observed living...

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Automatic Stabilizers and Economic Crisis : US Vs. Europe

Dolls, Mathias - 2009

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an automatic stabilizer in the current economic crisis. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38 per cent of a proportional income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the...

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How Did U.S. Consumers Use Their Stimulus Payments?

Coibion, Olivier - 2020

Using a large-scale survey of U.S. consumers, we study how the large one-time transfers to individuals from the CARES Act affected their consumption, saving and labor supply decisions. Most respondents report that they primarily saved or paid down debts with their transfers, with only about 15...

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