"Einer der Ansatzpunkte der Kritik am offenen statischen Leontief-Modell ist die Vernachlässigung des Keynes'schen Multiplikators. Ihm wird durch die Darstellung de erweiterten InputOutput-Modells in einem ersten Schritt Rechnung getragen. Die Erweiterung des bisher verwendeten...

Cilj ovoga rada je procijeniti Modiglijanijevu funkciju potrošnje u gospodarstvu Hrvatske koja osim efekta raspoloživog dohotka inkorporira i efekt bogatstva na potrošnju. Procjena je napravljena na kvartalnim podacima na dostupnoj statističkoj građi za razdoblje nakon 1997. godine....

This paper provides future researchers of economic structure with a model for building a social accounting matrix (SAM), that is, a unique countrywide database for use in structural analysis, and applies this model to the empirical investigation of the economic structure of Pakistan. Our...

Renewed interest in fiscal policy has increased the use of quantitative models to evaluate policy. Because of modelling uncertainty, it is essential that policy evaluations be robust to alternative assumptions. We find that models currently being used in practice to evaluate fiscal policy...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse whether fiscal policies can alleviate the effects of the zero lower bound (ZLB) on interest rates and if they should be coordinated internationally. The analysis is carried out using EAGLE, a DSGE model of the global economy. We consider that the fiscal...

The global financial crisis has lead to a renewed interest in discretionary fiscal stimulus. Advocates of discretionary measures emphasize that government spending can stimulate additional private spending — the Keynesian multiplier effect. Thus, we investigate whether the spending package...

This paper investigates how expectations about future government spending affect the transmission of fiscal policy shocks. We study the effects of two different types of government spending shocks in the United States: (i) spending shocks that are accompanied by an expected reversal of public...

We seek to quantify the impact on euro area GDP of the European Economic Recovery Plan (EERP) enacted in response to the financial crisis of 2008-09. To do so, we estimate an extended version of the ECB’s New Area-Wide Model with a richly specified fiscal sector. The estimation results point...