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We estimate the impact of fiscal stimulus measures enacted in response to COVID-19 on U.S. GDP, investment and exports … time-path. Initial stimulus bills, including the CARES Act, reduced the potential decline in GDP resulting from the …
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consumption and the government spending multiplier, given that consumption and labor are somewhat complementary. -- Trend growth … ; price and wage staggering ; government spending multiplier …
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closely related to the harshness of fiscal austerity. Cumulative multiplier estimates are found to vary in a range from 1.4 to … 2.1, depending on the data source used to identify the intensity of fiscal consolidation. Given these multiplier values …
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This paper provides evidence that austerity shocks have long-run negative effects on GDP. Besides addressing the important gap in the growing fiscal research regarding the short time horizon of the estimations, this paper analyzes two other important assumptions made in the literature regarding...
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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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This paper analyses the level of inequality in Spain and how it evolved over the course of the past crisis and the early stages of the current recovery. To this end, it first introduces the various dimensions of wage, income, consumption and wealth inequality, and studies how they have...
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of countercyclical fiscal policy in the region. The global crisis, as well as the fiscal stimulus packages implemented by … experienced a robust V-shaped recovery. According to conventional wisdom, the fiscal stimulus packages put in place by Asian … using cross-country panel data. Our main finding is that the stimulus has had a limited but positive impact on developing …
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the EU15 GDP. The impact of wage policies is positive but small; the overall stimulus becomes much stronger with fiscal …
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A model of growth with endogenous innovation and distortionary taxes is presented. Since innovation is the only source of volatility, any variable that influences innovation directly affects volatility and growth. This joint endogeneity is illustrated by working out the effects through which...
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