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The economic effects of exogenous fiscal shocks in Spain: a SVAR approach

This paper estimates the effects of exogenous fiscal policy shocks in Spain in a VAR framework. Government expenditure expansionary shocks are found to have positive effects on output in the short-term at the cost of higher inflation and public deficits and lower output in the medium and long term. Tax increases are found to drag economic activity in the medium term while entailing an only temporary improvement of the public budget balance. The application of these results to the analysis of fiscal policy in Spain since the mid-nineties points to the conclusion that the consolidation process does not seem to have involved costs in terms of output growth. Moreover, the stance of fiscal policy has become more counter-cyclical in that period.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ECB Working Paper ; No. 647

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Fiscal Policy
Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: General
Thema
Fiscal multipliers
Fiscal shocks
VAR
Finanzpolitik
Schock
VAR-Modell
Spanien

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
de Castro Fernández, Francisco
Hernández de Cos, Pablo
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
European Central Bank (ECB)
(wo)
Frankfurt a. M.
(wann)
2006

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • de Castro Fernández, Francisco
  • Hernández de Cos, Pablo
  • European Central Bank (ECB)

Entstanden

  • 2006

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