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This paper constructs a narrative account of all legislated discretionary policy changes in the United Kingdom from 1945 to 2009. Following Romer and Romer (2009, 2010), evidence of the policymakers’ motivation is presented from U.K. official Budget documents together with technical notes,...
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while tax rates rise following a spending shock these increases are modest, with debt rising. Deficit financed spending …
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while tax rates rise following a spending shock these increases are modest, with debt rising. Deficit financed spending …
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affects the response of the economy to a government spending shock. The model's parameters are therefore estimated (including … costs and habits all play an important role; and that whilst tax rates rise following the shock, their small magnitude …
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After the Global Financial Crisis a controversial rush to fiscal austerity followed in many countries. Yet research on the effects of austerity on macroeconomic aggregates was and still is unsettled, mired by the difficulty of identifying multipliers from observational data. This paper...
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In a seminal contribution, Romer and Romer (2010) introduce a new dataset of exogenous tax changes and estimate a tax multiplier at 3 years of about -3. These results have been criticized as implausibly large. In this paper, I argue that on theoretical grounds the discretionary component of...
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze empirically the short- and long-run effects of tax shocks on private consumption expenditure on component basis in Turkey. To do so, first, we decomposed private consumption expenditure into four major sub-categories, including food, education, and...
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Investigation of the fiscal policy effects generates comprehensive dispute given the scientific importance of understanding the mechanisms by which governments interventions operate and interact throughout the economy. In addition, should not be overlooked that the effects of fiscal policies are...
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stärkeres Wirtschaftswachstum, um die aufgebauten Schuldenberge abtragen und die Arbeitslosigkeit reduzieren zu können, verfügen … Wirtschaftswachstum zu stärken, ohne die öffentlichen Haushalte zu belasten, könnte eine »fiskalische Abwertung«sein. Dabei werden die …, den Handelsbilanzsaldo und damit das Wirtschaftswachstum dort in der kurzen Frist zu stabilisieren. Daher dürfte dieses …
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Tax Burden, defined as the ratio of total tax revenues over personal income, is prominently used to summarize state tax policy. We analyze the empirical relationship between changes in Tax Burden and changes in state tax policy from 1987 to 2000 – as measured by states’ own forecasts of the...
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