Fiscal Multipliers in Recessions and Expansions Does It Matter Whether Government Spending is Increasing or Decreasing? /

Using non-linear methods, this paper finds that existing estimates of government spending multipliers in expansion and recession may yield biased results by ignoring whether government spending is increasing or decreasing. For industrial countries, the problem originates in the fact that, contrary t...

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Main Author: Riera-Crichton, Daniel
Other Authors: Vegh, Carlos A, Vuletin, Guillermo
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2014
Series:Policy research working papers
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