Fiscal Policy and Economic Activity During Recessions in Advanced Economies /

Using data for advanced economies, this paper investigates whether factors identified in the theoretical and empirical literature explain the effectiveness of fiscal policy in responding to recessions. The results are informative about the fiscal response to recessions but provide only a partial exp...

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Glavni autor: Schimmelpfennig, Axel
Daljnji autori: Hemming, Richard, Mahfouz, Selma
Format: Žurnal
Jezik:English
Izdano: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
Serija:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/087
Online pristup:Full text available on IMF
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Sažetak:Using data for advanced economies, this paper investigates whether factors identified in the theoretical and empirical literature explain the effectiveness of fiscal policy in responding to recessions. The results are informative about the fiscal response to recessions but provide only a partial explanation of the impact of fiscal policy on economic activity. Overall, it would appear that fiscal multipliers are very small.
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ISSN:1018-5941
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