We construct multivariate, state-space mixed-frequencies models for the main componentsof the Spanish General Government sector made up of blocks for each one of its subsectors: Central Government, Social Security and aggregate of Regional and Local government sectors. Each block is modelled...

The fact that the literature tends to find optimistic biases in national fiscal projections has led to a growing recognition in the academic and policy arenas of the need for independent forecasts in the fiscal domain, prepared by independent agencies, such as the European Commission in the case...

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This paper estimates the effects of exogenous fiscal policy shocks in Spain in a VAR framework. Government expenditure expansionary shocks are found to have a positive impact on output in the short-term at the cost of higher inflation and public deficits and lower output in the medium and long...

This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model in which the public and the private sector interact in the labor market. Previous studies that analyze the labor market effects of public sector employment and wages have mostly assumed exogenous rules for public wage and public employment....

The analysis of the macroeconomic impact of fiscal policies in the euro area has been traditionally limited by the absence of quarterly fiscal data. To overcome this problem, we provide two new databases in this paper. Firstly, we construct a quarterly database of euro area fiscal variables for...

We analyse the impact of fiscal policy shocks in the euro area as a whole, using a newly available quarterly dataset of fiscal variables for the period 1981-2007. To allow for comparability with previous results on euro area countries and the US, we use a standard structural VAR framework, and...

En este trabajo analizamos los efectos de perturbaciones fiscales sobre el tipo de cambio efectivo de España durante el período 1981-2008 mediante un marco estándar de modelos VAR estructurales. Aquí se muestra que el gasto público conlleva respuestas positivas de la producción,...

En este documento se estima el impacto de cambios exógenos en el gasto público sobre la actividad económica durante períodos de alta y baja incertidumbre, y durante períodos de expansiones y recesiones. Se encuentra que el efecto del gasto público sobre el PIB es de mayor magnitud durante...

El tamaño de los efectos desbordamiento (spillovers) de la política fiscal en el área del euro se ha convertido en un tema de particular relevancia en la actualidad, habida cuenta de las propuestas sobre la coordinación de políticas fiscales que persiguen encontrar un tono agregado de...