We compare the government investment and government consumption multipliers in the advanced economies during the recent fiscal consolidation, following the Blanchard and Leigh (2013) approach. We find that, in the highly-indebted countries, the investment multiplier is likely to be much higher...

This paper investigates which factors determine how countries recover after crises, on a sample of 47 financial, currency and sovereign debt crises in 22 countries from the last thirty years, including the recent Great Recession. Several findings emerge. First, the most important factors which...