Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: Fiscal stimuli to recover? A cascade of academic and layman articles debate the effectiveness of fiscal policy in stimulating the economy backed up by different economic models and empirical support. This paper surveys the theoretical predictions and recent empirical vector autoregression evidence on the short-run effects of discretionary fiscal policy on macroeconomic aggregates.
Source: Journal of Economic Surveys
Author: Shafik Hebous
Institution: Goethe University Frankfurt
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1592950433