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This paper surveys the empirical research on fiscal policy analysis based on real-time data. This literature can be broadly divided in three groups that focus on: (1) the statistical properties of revisions in fiscal data; (2) the political and institutional determinants of projection errors by...
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This paper investigates how expectations about future government spending affect the transmission of fiscal policy shocks. We study the effects of two different types of government spending shocks in the United States: (i) spending shocks that are accompanied by an expected reversal of public...
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This paper investigates the contribution of private and public channels for consumption risk sharing in the EMU over … estimating how risk sharing has evolved since the start of the EMU, and in particular during the recent crisis. Our results … suggest that, whereas in the early years of the EMU only about 40% of country-specific output shocks were smoothed, in the …
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