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this paper, we explore the concept of the income multiplier in a multi-regional input-output setting, in the context of the … Greek recession, showing empirical evidence for the increasing magnitude of the multiplier during the recession period. The … may bring about important implications for regional inequality in Greece. …
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closely related to the harshness of fiscal austerity. Cumulative multiplier estimates are found to vary in a range from 1.4 to … 2.1, depending on the data source used to identify the intensity of fiscal consolidation. Given these multiplier values …
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During the sovereign debt crisis, many Euro countries have deployed "austerity packages" implementing structural reforms and cutting government spending. Such policies should have led to an initial decline in GDP followed by recovery and a reduction of the debt to gdp ratio. Key to this outcome...
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Identifying fiscal multipliers is usually constrained by the absence of a counterfactual scenario. Our new data set allows overcoming this problem by making use of the fact that recommendations under the EU's excessive deficit procedure (EDP) provide both a baseline no-policy-change scenario and...
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consolidation measures that have been implemented in Greece between 2010 and 2014. We estimate that austerity explains almost the …
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cut capital expenditures, rather than decreasing current expenditures or raising taxes. The estimated multiplier is not …
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countercyclical fiscal policy is effective in fighting conventional recessions, little is known about the effectiveness of fiscal …
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by estimating medium-term fiscal multipliers during protracted recessions (PR) in a sample of 17 OECD countries. Based on …
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