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effect of government spending on output. Following a popular assumption that military spending is unlikely to respond to … output at business-cycle frequencies - and exploiting variation in military spending of a significantly larger magnitude than … economies and in countries with a fixed exchange rate. The output response to government spending persists for about two to …
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the effects of government spending on output in advanced and developing countries. Identifying government-spending shocks …
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In this paper, we estimate the effect of defense spending on the U.S. macroeconomy since World War II. First, we construct a new panel dataset of state-level federal defense contracts. Second, we sum observations across states and, using the resulting time series, estimate the aggregate effect...
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the effects of government spending on output in advanced and developing countries. Identifying government-spending shocks …-9, circulated under the title 'Output Response to Government Spending: Evidence from New International Military Spending Data.' …
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This paper has two main objectives. The first is to propose a policy architecture that can prevent a very high public debt from resulting in a high tax burden, a government default, or inflation. The second objective is to show that government deficits do not face a financing problem. After...
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such policies pose constraints on the recovery of output and employment, with adverse impacts on income distribution; but …
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The contribution by the Austrian economist Friedrich von Hayek to monetary theory stimulates a far-reaching debate on the role of the government in monetary management and the effects of alternative policies in regulating the issuance of money. Since the early 1930s Hayek had been concerned...
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This paper examines the implications of different monetary and fiscal policy rules in an economy characterized by Harrodian instability. We show that (i) a monetary rule along Taylor lines can be stabilizing for low debt ratios but becomes de-stabilizing if the debt ratio exceeds a certain...
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This paper briefly summarizes the orthodox approach to banking, finance, and money, and then points the way toward an alternative based on socioeconomics. It argues that the alternative approach is better fitted to not only the historical record, but also sheds more light on the nature of money...
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