The budget was announced by Finance Minister P Chidambaram on 28th February 2013. There was mounting of expectations from the budget. The mix kind of feelings arrived from the budget. The SMEs, Rural India, infrastructure, textiles, power, port and defense was the focused area. But the reaction...

This paper investigates the link between fiscal policy shocks and movements in asset markets using a Fully Simultaneous System approach in a Bayesian framework. Building on the works of Blanchard and Perotti (2002), Leeper and Zha (2003), and Sims and Zha (1999, 2006), the empirical evidence for...