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This paper studies whether the fiscal stimulus programs during the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic contributed to the sharp rise in house prices during the same period. Exploiting the variation in the share of local population eligible for the historic $900 billion economic impact payments and...
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In the recent financial crisis, macroeconomic stimuli produced mixed results across developed economies. In contrast, China's stimulus boosted real GDP growth from an annualized 6.2% in the first quarter of 2009 trough to 11.9% in the first quarter of 2010. Amidst this phenomenal response, land...
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In the recent financial crisis, macroeconomic stimuli produced mixed results across developed economies. In contrast, China's stimulus boosted real GDP growth from an annualized 6.2% in the first quarter of 2009 trough to 11.9% in the first quarter of 2010. Amidst this phenomenal response, land...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461787
The NZ economy has performed well over the past few years, having achieved relatively strong GDP and employment growth. However, some constraints to sustaining this momentum beyond the short term are emerging in the fields of skills, housing and urban infrastructure. Skills shortages have risen...
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Theory and empirical evidence have provided contradictory predictions and findings on the impact of government spending on housing investment and home values. An increase in government outlays may boost output and activity, but housing investment, like other investment, could be subject to...
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We examine the relationship between changes in a country’s public sector fiscal position and inequality at the top and …-like indices of inequality as our measures to assess distributional changes. Based on the EU’s Statistics on Income and Living … rising inequality at the top. The data also weakly suggest a decrease in inequality at the bottom. The distributional impact …
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, that direct taxes and cash transfers are overall progressive and reduce inequality and poverty. Our disaggregated analyses …
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In this paper, we use a static fiscal incidence analysis model to evaluate the poverty and inequality impacts of using … substantially reduce poverty and inequality to varying degrees depending on the taxes and transfers used. …
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This paper analyzes the effects of time-varying fiscal policy behavior on output and consumption multipliers within a monetary union. The framework is that of a standard New Keynesian twocountry model with distortionary taxes and Calvo price rigidities. I first show that multipliers differ...
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