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Title: Country Heterogeneity and the International Evidence on the Effects of Fiscal Policy

Author(s): Carlo A. Favero, Francesco Giavazzi and Jacopo Perego

Publication Date: August 2011

Keyword(s): fiscal policy, global VAR models, government budget constraint and public debt

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics

Abstract: This paper shows how the richer frequency and variety of fiscal policy shocks available in an international sample can be analyzed recognizing the heterogeneity that exists across different countries. The main conclusion of our empirical analysis is that the question 'what is the fiscal policy multiplier' is an ill-posed one. There is no unconditional fiscal policy multiplier. The effect of fiscal policy on output is different depending on the different debt dynamics, the different degree of openness and the different fiscal reaction functions across different countries. There are many fiscal multipliers and an average fiscal multiplier is of very little use to describe the effect of exogenous shifts in fiscal policy on output.

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Favero, C, Giavazzi, F and Perego, J. 2011. 'Country Heterogeneity and the International Evidence on the Effects of Fiscal Policy'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=8517