How Big are Fiscal Multipliers in Latin America? /

This paper uses the strategy and data of Blanchard and Perotti (BP) to identify fiscal shocks and estimate fiscal multipliers for the United States. With these results, it computes the cumulative multiplier of Ramey and Zubairy (2018), now common in the literature. It finds that, contrary to the pea...

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1. Verfasser: Restrepo, Jorge
Format: Zeitschrift
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020.
Schriftenreihe:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/017
Online Zugang:Full text available on IMF
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