State Dependence of Fiscal Multipliers
| Author | : Mishel Ghassibe |
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| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2022 |
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State Dependence of Fiscal Multipliers
| Author | : Mishel Ghassibe |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2022 |
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Fiscal Policy after the Financial Crisis
| Author | : Alberto Alesina |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 596 |
| Release | : 2013-06-25 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 022601844X |
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The recent recession has brought fiscal policy back to the forefront, with economists and policy makers struggling to reach a consensus on highly political issues like tax rates and government spending. At the heart of the debate are fiscal multipliers, whose size and sensitivity determine the power of such policies to influence economic growth. Fiscal Policy after the Financial Crisis focuses on the effects of fiscal stimuli and increased government spending, with contributions that consider the measurement of the multiplier effect and its size. In the face of uncertainty over the sustainability of recent economic policies, further contributions to this volume discuss the merits of alternate means of debt reduction through decreased government spending or increased taxes. A final section examines how the short-term political forces driving fiscal policy might be balanced with aspects of the long-term planning governing monetary policy. A direct intervention in timely debates, Fiscal Policy after the Financial Crisis offers invaluable insights about various responses to the recent financial crisis.
China's Fiscal Multiplier and Its State Dependence
| Author | : Wen Zhang |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
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This paper studies the effects of government spending on China's output with a threshold structural vector autoregressive model. The empirical findings suggest that increasing government expenditure significantly raises China's aggregate output. Contrary to the evidence of countercyclical fiscal multipliers in the advanced economies, China's fiscal multiplier tends to be procyclical, suggesting a novel fiscal policy transmission mechanism in China.
How Big (Small?) are Fiscal Multipliers?
| Author | : Ethan Ilzetzki |
| Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
| Total Pages | : 68 |
| Release | : 2011-03-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1455218022 |
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We contribute to the intense debate on the real effects of fiscal stimuli by showing that the impact of government expenditure shocks depends crucially on key country characteristics, such as the level of development, exchange rate regime, openness to trade, and public indebtedness. Based on a novel quarterly dataset of government expenditure in 44 countries, we find that (i) the output effect of an increase in government consumption is larger in industrial than in developing countries, (ii) the fisscal multiplier is relatively large in economies operating under predetermined exchange rate but zero in economies operating under flexible exchange rates; (iii) fiscal multipliers in open economies are lower than in closed economies and (iv) fiscal multipliers in high-debt countries are also zero.
Fiscal Multipliers in Recessions
| Author | : Matthew B. Canzoneri |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Business cycles |
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The Great Recession, and the fiscal response to it, has revived interest in the size of fiscal multipliers. Standard business cycle models have difficulties generating multipliers greater than one. And they also cannot produce any significant state-dependence in the size of the multipliers over the business cycle. In this paper we employ a variant of the Curdia-Woodford model of costly financial intermediation and show that fiscal multipliers can be strongly state dependent in a countercyclical manner. In particular, a fiscal expansion during a recession may lead to multiplier values exceeding two, while a similar expansion during an economic boom would produce multipliers falling short of unity. This pattern obtains if the spread (the financial friction) is more sensitive to fiscal policy during recessions than during expansions, a feature that is present in the data. Our results are consistent with recent empirical work documenting the state contingency of multipliers.
What Have We Learned?
| Author | : George A. Akerlof |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2016-09-02 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0262529858 |
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Top economists consider how to conduct policy in a world where previous beliefs have been shattered by the recent financial and economic crises. Since 2008, economic policymakers and researchers have occupied a brave new economic world. Previous consensuses have been upended, former assumptions have been cast into doubt, and new approaches have yet to stand the test of time. Policymakers have been forced to improvise and researchers to rethink basic theory. George Akerlof, Nobel Laureate and one of this volume's editors, compares the crisis to a cat stuck in a tree, afraid to move. In April 2013, the International Monetary Fund brought together leading economists and economic policymakers to discuss the slowly emerging contours of the macroeconomic future. This book offers their combined insights. The editors and contributors—who include the Nobel Laureate and bestselling author Joseph Stiglitz, Federal Reserve Vice Chair Janet Yellen, and the former Governor of the Bank of Israel Stanley Fischer—consider the lessons learned from the crisis and its aftermath. They discuss, among other things, post-crisis questions about the traditional policy focus on inflation; macroprudential tools (which focus on the stability of the entire financial system rather than of individual firms) and their effectiveness; fiscal stimulus, public debt, and fiscal consolidation; and exchange rate arrangements.
State-Dependent Effects of Fiscal Policy
| Author | : Steven M. Fazzari |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
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We investigate the effects of government spending on U.S. output with a threshold structural vector autoregressive model. We consider Bayesian model comparison and generalized impulse response analysis to test for nonlinearities in the responses of output to government spending. Our empirical findings support state-dependent effects of fiscal policy, with the government spending multiplier larger and more persistent whenever there is considerable economic slack. Based on capacity utilization as the preferred threshold variable, the estimated multiplier is large (1.6) for a low-utilization regime that accounts for more than half of the sample observations from 1967-2012 according to the estimated threshold level.
Do Fiscal Multipliers Depend on Fiscal Positions?
| Author | : Raju Huidrom |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 37 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Economic development |
| ISBN | : |
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This paper analyzes the relationship between fiscal multipliers and fiscal positions of governments using an Interactive Panel Vector Auto Regression model and a large data-set of advanced and developing economies. The methodology permits tracing the endogenous relationship between fiscal multipliers and fiscal positions while maintaining enough degrees of freedom to draw sharp inferences. The paper reports three major results. First, the fiscal multipliers depend on fiscal positions: the multipliers tend to be larger when fiscal positions are strong (i.e. when government debt and deficits are low) than weak. For instance, the long-run multiplier can be as large as unity when the fiscal position is strong, while it can be negative when the fiscal position is weak. Second, these effects are separate and distinct from the impact of the business cycle on the fiscal multiplier. Third, the state-dependent effects of the fiscal position on multipliers is attributable to two factors: an interest rate channel through which higher borrowing costs, due to investors' increased perception of credit risks when stimulus is implemented from a weak initial fiscal position, crowd out private investment; and a Ricardian channel through which households reduce consumption in anticipation of future fiscal adjustments.
Growth Forecast Errors and Fiscal Multipliers
| Author | : Mr.Olivier J. Blanchard |
| Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
| Total Pages | : 43 |
| Release | : 2013-01-03 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1475576447 |
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This paper investigates the relation between growth forecast errors and planned fiscal consolidation during the crisis. We find that, in advanced economies, stronger planned fiscal consolidation has been associated with lower growth than expected, with the relation being particularly strong, both statistically and economically, early in the crisis. A natural interpretation is that fiscal multipliers were substantially higher than implicitly assumed by forecasters. The weaker relation in more recent years may reflect in part learning by forecasters and in part smaller multipliers than in the early years of the crisis.
