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Fiscal spending multiplier calculations have been revived in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Much of the … current literature is based on VAR estimation methods and DSGE models. The aim of this paper is not a further deepening of … multiplier for EU members. Multipliers for specific spending categories are comparably high, ranging between 1.4 and 1.8 for many …
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This paper examines issues related to the estimation of the government spending multiplier (GSM) in a Dynamic … to cross-equation restrictions, omitting the endogenous component of government policy at the estimation stage would lead …
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After the Global Financial Crisis a controversial rush to fiscal austerity followed in many countries. Yet research on the effects of austerity on macroeconomic aggregates was and still is unsettled, mired by the difficulty of identifying multipliers from observational data. This paper...
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We present the estimated large-scale three-region DSGE model GEAR picturing Germany, the Euro Area and the Rest of the world. Compared to existing models of this type, GEAR incorporates a comprehensive fiscal block, involuntary unemployment and a complex international structure. We use the model...
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spending multipliers. We show that the multiplier values are statistically larger during recessions than during expansions …
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decomposition-based approach, we show how to unpack heterogeneity in the fiscal multiplier, an object that at any point in time may … our application, the fiscal multiplier varies considerably with monetary policy: it can be as small as zero, or as large …
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This paper examines the changes in the dynamic interactions between aggregate demand and income distribution in the USA. We focus on two periods that capture the relevant characteristics before and after contemporary neoliberal capitalism. We study the interactions between aggregate demand and...
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growth. Our estimation reveals that sector-specific developments have historically accounted for half of this long …
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linear benchmark SVAR, the analysis finds that hiking spending yields a short-term fiscal multiplier of around 0.70, while … the fiscal multiplier resulting from an increase in taxes and social security contributions is -0.66. In addition, the …
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The existing literature on fiscal policy has mainly employed linear models that found a small fiscal multiplier in …, linear models are not capable of distinguishing the size of the fiscal multiplier in di↵erent phases of economic cycles …. Responding to the previous studies that confirm regime dependency of a fiscal multiplier, our model enriches the literature of …
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