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Will Germany's temporary VAT tax rates cut as part of the Covid-19 fiscal stimulus package boost consumption and growth?
Funke, Michael; Terasa, Raphael - 2020
On 3 June 2020, the German government announced a EUR 130 billion fiscal stimulus package to stimulate market demand and jumpstart the economy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in the spring of 2020. The most prominent measure of this package is an unconventional fiscal policy in the...
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The Distributive Impact of Fiscal Policy in Cameroon : Tax and Benefit Incidence
Atemnkeng, Johannes Tabi; Akwi, Tafah; Anzah, Etoh - 2018
Most fiscal incidence studies neither analyze simultaneously the tax and benefit incidence (simply known as net fiscal incidence) nor actually relate poverty indices to fiscal impact. This paper jointly and separately examines the redistributive and poverty effects of the tax and transfer...
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The ‘Progressive’ Goods and Services Tax (GST) (Fiscal Policy) as a Tool of Inflation Targeting?
Altamirano, Julio - 2016
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Do expectations matter? : reassessing the effect of government spending on key macroeconomic variables in Germany
Gründler, Klaus; Sauerhammer, Sarah - 2016
This paper investigates the effects of government spending on key macroeconomic variables in Germany. It contributes to … for Germany by pointing to a rather positive effect of government spending on GDP. …
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Business cycle accounting for the German fiscal stimulus program during the Great Recession
Fehrle, Daniel; Huber, Johannes A. - 2020
McGrattan (2007, Econometrica) for the Great Recession and the associated stimulus program in Germany 2008-2009. We include …
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Business cycle accounting for the German fiscal stimulus program during the Great Recession
Fehrle, Daniel; Huber, Johannes - 2020
McGrattan (2007, Econometrica) for the Great Recession and the associated stimulus program in Germany 2008-2009. We include …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012236598
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Temporary VAT reduction during the lockdown : evidence from Germany
Clemens, Marius; Röger, Werner - 2021
This paper evaluates the temporary VAT reduction invoked by the German government over the third and fourth quarter of 2020 as part of the COVID-19 stimulus package. There is considerable controversy. Critics argue that VAT reductions are ineffective in the presence of lockdown measures in place...
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Costly, but (relatively) ineffective? : an assessment of Germany's temporary VAT rate reduction during the Covid-19 pandemic
Baudisch, Victoria; Neuenkirch, Matthias - 2023
We evaluate Germany's temporary value-added tax (VAT) rate reduction as a tool to stimulate consumer spending during … the Covid-19 pandemic using a comparative case study approach. We construct a credible counterfactual for Germany in a two … similar to Germany regarding important post-treatment characteristics. Second, we apply a reweighting scheme on the pre …
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Costly, But (Relatively) Ineffective? An Assessment of Germany's Temporary VAT Rate Reduction During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Baudisch, Victoria; Neuenkirch, Matthias - 2023
We evaluate Germany’s temporary value-added tax (VAT) rate reduction as a tool to stimulate consumer spending during … the Covid-19 pandemic using a comparative case study approach. We construct a credible counterfactual for Germany in a two … similar to Germany regarding important post-treatment characteristics. Second, we apply a reweighting scheme on the pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356603
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Costly, but (Relatively) Ineffective? An Assessment of Germany’s Temporary VAT Rate Reduction During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Baudisch, Victoria; Neuenkirch, Matthias - 2023
We evaluate Germany’s temporary value-added tax (VAT) rate reduction as a tool to stimulate consumer spending during … the Covid-19 pandemic using a comparative case study approach. We construct a credible counterfactual for Germany in a two … similar to Germany regarding important post-treatment characteristics. Second, we apply a reweighting scheme on the pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014350793