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,...

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Main Authors: Riera-Crichton, Daniel, Vegh, Carlos A., Vuletin, Guillermo
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank Group, Washington, DC 2014
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/07/19898940/fiscal-multipliers-recessions-expansions-matter-whether-government-spending-increasing-or-decreasing
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19389