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According to the dynamic version of the Gordon growth model, the long-run expected return on stocks, stock yield, is the sum of the dividend yield on stocks plus some weighted average of expected future growth rates in dividends. We construct a measure of stock yield based on sell-side analysts'...
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Renewed interest in fiscal policy has increased the use of quantitative models to evaluate policy. Because of modelling uncertainty, it is essential that policy evaluations be robust to alternative assumptions. We find that models currently being used in practice to evaluate fiscal policy...
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. It uses trade linkages to estimate the multiplier effects of a shock as it is transmitted through other countries' output … multiplier effects are large and significant and can transmit shocks in very different patterns than predicted from a bilateral …-trade matrix. For example, due to these output-multiplier effects, a shock to one country can have a large impact on countries that …
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Using data from 16 OECD countries from 1981 to 2014 we study the effects on output of fiscal adjustments as a function of the composition of the adjustment - that is, whether the adjustment is mostly based on spending cuts or on tax hikes - and of the state of the business cycle when the...
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demand shocks in counties with more generous benefits. Our analysis finds that the local fiscal multiplier of unemployment …
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observed economic shocks. Our estimates imply a local income multiplier of government spending between 1.7 and 2, and a cost … per job of $30,000 per year. A complementary IV estimation strategy yields similar estimates. We also explore the …
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After the Global Financial Crisis a controversial rush to fiscal austerity followed in many countries. Yet research on the effects of austerity on macroeconomic aggregates was and still is unsettled, mired by the difficulty of identifying multipliers from observational data. This paper...
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modestly negative long-run multipliers around -0.42. The multiplier is sensitive to the fraction of transfers given to credit …
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decomposition-based approach, we show how to unpack heterogeneity in the fiscal multiplier, an object that at any point in time may … our application, the fiscal multiplier varies considerably with monetary policy: it can be as small as zero, or as large …
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Buyout booms form in response to declines in the aggregate risk premium. We document that the equity risk premium is the primary determinant of buyout activity rather than credit-specific conditions. We articulate a simple explanation for this phenomenon: a low risk premium increases the present...
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