Agnello, Luca; Castro, Vítor; Sousa, Ricardo M. - In: Journal of Macroeconomics 34 (2012) 3, pp. 874-890
We assess the response of fiscal policy to developments in asset markets in the US. We estimate fiscal policy rules augmented with aggregate wealth, wealth composition (i.e. financial and housing wealth) and asset prices (i.e. stock and housing prices) using two nonlinear specifications that...