We revisit the question whether U.S. fiscal policy in the pre-Volcker period was active or passive. To determine the policy stance, we estimate a DSGE model with monetary and fiscal policy interactions employing a sequential Monte Carlo algorithm (SMC) for posterior evaluation. In contrast to...

The key to multiple testing is to respect the dependencies between the marginal hypotheses tests. Any dependency structure can be modeled by so-called copula functions. This makes copulas an interesting tool in multiple testing. In particular, it is possible to explicitly utilize the dependency...