The expansionary characteristics of the multi-year fiscal policy in Israel (and especially the share of government spending in the product and the ratios of overall debt and tax burden that were, during the sample period, among the highest in the western world) created many similarities to the...

Though much research has been done worldwide, the effect of uncertainty concealed in inflation expectations on private investment is disputed theoretically in the absence of enough empirical evidence to reach a conclusion. Furthermore, at the same time, traditional investment equations do not...

The unique characteristics of the fiscal policy in Israel that created one of the largest public sectors assumed many similarities to the characteristics described in the economic literature as related to non-Keynesian effects. The results point indeed to significant asymmetrical negative effect...