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using a variation of controls, sub-samples and specifications. - Fiscal policy ; financial crisis ; growth ; OECD ; EU …
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This paper estimates a fiscal reaction function (FRF) framework for euro area countries and derives a novel approach to measure fiscal fatigue. As in previous studies, we find evidence that euro area sovereigns abide, on average, by (weak) sustainability constraints. The primary balance improves...
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We study the relationship between fiscal policy and household saving across the euro area countries for the period 1999-2019. To this extent, we propose a thick modelling approach, which allows a vast number of model specifications in a dynamic panel setting. We find that fiscal expansions are...
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Recent fiscal policies have aimed to stimulate household spending. In 2008, most households received one-time economic stimulus payments. In 2009, most working households received the Making Work Pay tax credit in the form of reduced withholding; other households, mainly retirees, received...
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growth and output trend. Our main finding is that currency collapses are associated with a permanent output loss relative to … output. More generally, we also find that the likelihood of a positive growth rate in the year of the collapse is over two … times more likely than a contraction, and that positive growth rates in the years that follow such episodes are the norm …
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growth and output trend. Our main finding is that currency collapses are associated with a permanent output loss relative to … output. More generally, we also find that the likelihood of a positive growth rate in the year of the collapse is over two … times more likely than a contraction, and that positive growth rates in the years that follow such episodes are the norm …
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In this paper we assess to what extent in the existence of a financial crisis, government spending can contribute to mitigate economic downturns in the short run and whether such impact differs in crisis and non crisis times. We use panel analysis for a set of OECD and non-OECD countries for the...
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normative choice for external indebtedness and (ii) the decision to exclude the foreign direct investment subcomponent from the …
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, the location of the government creditor produces these differential responses through the extent that private investment …
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the resources used to acquire public debt reduce domestic consumption and investment. These crowding-out effects are …
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