Fragetta, Matteo; Gasteiger, Emanuel - Unidade de Investigação em Desenvolvimento … - 2012
We quantify the impact of government spending shocks in the US. Thereby, we control for fiscal foresight by utilizing the narrative approach. Moreover, we surmount the generic limited information problem inherent in vector autoregressions (VARs) by a factor-augmented VAR (FAVAR) approach. We...