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The literature on fiscal multipliers finds that spending-based fiscal consolidations tend to have more benign macro-economic consequences than revenue-based consolidations. By directly comparing ex-post data with consolidation plans, we present evidence of a systematically weaker follow-up of...
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Identifying fiscal multipliers is usually constrained by the absence of a counterfactual scenario. Our new data set allows overcoming this problem by making use of the fact that recommendations under the EU's excessive deficit procedure (EDP) provide both a baseline no-policy-change scenario and...
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multiplier of fiscal expansion is found to be significantly dampened by tighter financial conditions in case households are less …
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those multipliers to the amount of austerity measures implemented in years 2011-14, the paper evaluates their possible …
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The global financial crisis has lead to a renewed interest in discretionary fiscal stimulus. Advocates of discretionary … measures emphasize that government spending can stimulate additional private spending - the Keynesian multiplier effect. Thus … features such as price and wage rigidities to evaluate the impact of the fiscal stimulus. Four of them suggest that the planned …
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estimated stimulus is extremely small with GDP and employment effects only onesixth as large. -- Fiscal multiplier ; New … used in practice to evaluate fiscal policy stimulus proposals are not robust. Government spending multipliers in an … Keynesian Model ; fiscal stimulus ; government spending : macroeconomic modeling …
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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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