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Extraordinary Measures: The Role of Debt Levels in Fiscal Policy Responses to Covid-19

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  • Adam Elbourne
  • Giulia Piccillo
  • Konstantinos Velentzas

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We use SVAR models for 18 economies to estimate how much fiscal policy deviated from pre-pandemic norms during the Covid-19 pandemic. For most countries, fiscal policy was more expansive than the pre-pandemic norm predicts based on the state of the economy during the pandemic. The size of the deviation from the pre-pandemic norm is not related to the level of government debt on the eve of the pandemic, as fiscal space concepts would predict.

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  • Adam Elbourne & Giulia Piccillo & Konstantinos Velentzas, 2023. "Extraordinary Measures: The Role of Debt Levels in Fiscal Policy Responses to Covid-19," CESifo Working Paper Series 10852, CESifo.
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    Keywords

    Covid-19; fiscal policy; SVAR; fiscal space;
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    JEL classification:

    • E60 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - General
    • H50 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - General
    • C50 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - General

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