Arbeitspapier
Government size and business cycle volatility: How important are credit constraints?
In this paper we analyze how the availability of credit influences the relationship between government size as a proxy for fiscal stabilization policy and the amplitude of business cycle fluctuations in a sample of advanced OECD countries. Interpreting relatively low loan-tovalue ratios as an indication for tight credit constraints, we find that government size exerts a stabilizing effect on output and consumption growth fluctuations only when credit constraints are relatively tight. Our results are robust with respect to different measures of government size and provide support for the hypothesis that credit market frictions play a crucial role in the transmission of fiscal policy.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper Series in Economics ; No. 237
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Fiscal Policy
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
- Thema
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Business cycle
volatility
fiscal policy
stabilization policy
Staatsquote
Finanzpolitik
Verschuldungsrestriktion
Konjunktur
Volatilität
Schätzung
OECD-Staaten
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Leibrecht, Markus
Scharler, Johann
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
- (wo)
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Lüneburg
- (wann)
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2012
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Leibrecht, Markus
- Scharler, Johann
- Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
Entstanden
- 2012