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Keynesian theory suggests that a reduction in government expenditure has a negative effect on private demand and therefore on output. Contrary, neoclassical theory argues that reduced public expenditure makes room for an expansion of the private sector and thus has a stimulating effect on the...
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We empirically assess whether a usually expected negative response of private consumption and private investment to a fiscal consolidation is reversed. We focus on a large sample of 174 countries between 1970 and 2018. We also employ three alternative measures of the Cyclically Adjusted Primary...
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In this paper, based on a quarterly dataset of G7 countries with the application of a nonlinear ARDL model we test for the presence of a short-run and long-term asymmetry in the relationship between government spending and economic activity. The main aim of this study is to analyze the...
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This research examines impacts of austerity on the political instability in the European Union, defined as elevated levels of electoral volatility and ideological polarization. By analyzing macroeconomic theories that elucidate the effects of austerity on citizens' wealth and the national...
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the budget balance. The results show that stock-flow adjustments increased before elections. In Germany, stock … outside the core budget. Chapter 6 describes special funds in Germany and elaborates upon the purposes for which special funds …. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Stock-Flow-Adjustments vor Wahlen angestiegen sind. In Deutschland wurden große Stock …
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This volume was prepared by Markus Reischmann while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in June 2015 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in November 2015. It includes five self-contained chapters in the fields of public...
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in Germany 2020. We find that the annualized growth rate of expenditures for durables increased by 6 percentage points …
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in Germany 2020. We find that the annualized growth rate of expenditures for durables increased by 6 percentage points …
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in Germany 2020. We find that the annualized growth rate of expenditures for durables increased by 6 percentage points …
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This paper investigates the impact of fiscal policy on private consumption and labor supply in the UK economy using time-varying parameter vector autoregression (TVP-VAR) with stochastic volatility for the period Q2 1987 to Q2 2017. It considers fiscal variables such as government expenditure...
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