Research results have shown that government expenditure stimulates local economies more strongly than investment expenditure in the short term. This implies that in fiscal policy aimed at short-term ...
As I pointed out in my last piece, federal health-related tax expenditures have grown explosively over the past 50 years. I am using this post to dive a little deeper into the details and explain how ...
This paper incorporates the productivity role of government expenditure into the imperfectly competitive macroeconomic model and re-examines the important findings on the fiscal multiplier proposed by ...
When one shops locally, a significant portion of that money stays right here in Southwest Louisiana, creating a powerful ...
Public spending is too often justified on the basis of creation of jobs. And more often than not - there will be a reference to some number of jobs to be created. This number represents the 'new' ...
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol. 50, No. 4 (June 2018), pp. 789-815 (27 pages) This paper examines whether fiscal stimuli are more effective when the monetary policy is less responsive to ...
“Goldman Sachs anticipates the central government will meet its FY26 fiscal deficit target of 4.4% of GDP by curtailing capital expenditure. This measure is expected to offset anticipated shortfalls ...
Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation We construct unanticipated government spending shocks for 103 developing countries from 1990 to 2015 and study their ...
Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation We jointly estimate credit and fiscal multipliers in China. We use the tenure of the provincial party secretary, interacted ...