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Fiscal Policy and Monetary Integration in Europe

Gali, Jordi - 2003

discretionary budget deficit over the period 1980-2002, using data on EMU countries and control groups of non-EMU EU countries and … EMU countries has become more countercyclical over time, following what appears to be a trend that affects other … industrialized countries as well. Similarly, we find that the decline in public investment experienced over the last decade by EMU …

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Fiscal Rules in India : Are They Effective?

Buiter, Willem H. - 2010

This paper, a chapter in the forthcoming Oxford University Press Handbook of the Indian Economy, edited by Chetan Ghate, considers India's experience with fiscal (responsibility) rules during the past decade. After reviewing the basic facts concerning public debt and deficits in India, the...

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Unemployment Fiscal Multipliers

Monacelli, Tommaso - 2010

We estimate the effects of fiscal policy on the labor market in US data. An increase in government spending of 1 percent of GDP generates output and unemployment multipliers respectively of about 1.2 per cent (at one year) and 0.6 percentage points (at the peak). Each percentage point increase...

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Fiscal Policy, Wealth Effects, and Markups

Monacelli, Tommaso - 2008

We document that variations in government purchases generate a rise in consumption, the real and the product wage, and a fall in the markup. This evidence is robust across alternative empirical methodologies used to identify innovations in government spending (structural VAR vs. narrative...

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In Search of the Transmission Mechanism of Fiscal Policy

Perotti, Roberto - 2007

Most economists would agree that a hike in the federal funds rate will cause some slowdown in growth and inflation, and that the bulk of the empirical evidence is consistent with this statement. But perfectly reasonable economists can and do disagree even on the basic effects of a shock to...

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An Empirical Characterization of the Dynamic Effects of Changes in Government Spending and Taxes on Output

Blanchard, Olivier - 1999

This paper characterizes the dynamic effects of shocks in government spending and taxes on economic activity in the United States in the post-war period. It does so by using a mixed structural VAR/event study approach. Identification is achieved by using institutional information about the tax...

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Fiscal Policy, Profits, and Investment

Alesina, Alberto - 1999

This paper evaluates the effects of fiscal policy on investment using a panel of OECD countries. In particular, we investigate how different types of fiscal policy affect profits and , as a result, investment. We find a sizable negative effect of public spending -- and in particular of its...

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Notes on "A Code for Fiscal Stability"

Buiter, Willem H. - 1998

This note comments on two central issues for fiscal policy design in the UK, highlighted in the recent Code for Fiscal Stability' proposed by the new Labour government. The first concerns the merits of the so-called golden rule of public sector investment' -- the proposition that, over the...

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Fiscal Adjustments in OECD Countries : Composition and Macroeconomic Effects

Alesina, Alberto - 1996

This ppaer studies how the composition of fiscal adjustments influences their likelihood of success, defined as a long lasting deficit reduction, and their macroeconomic consequences. We find that fiscal adjustments which rely primarily on spending cuts on transfers and the government wage bill...

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Fiscal Expansions and Fiscal Adjustments in OECD Countries

Alesina, Alberto - 1995

This paper considers budget expansions and adjustments in OECD countries in the last three decades. Our main results are: i) on average fiscal expansions are the results of increases in expenditures, particularly of transfer programs, while contractions are typically due to tax increases; ii)...

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