Fiscal policy and economic activity: New Causal Evidence
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Keywords
Balanced budget; government spending; tax levies; exogenous variation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
- H30 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - General
- H72 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Budget and Expenditures
- R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-PBE-2022-12-12 (Public Economics)
- NEP-PUB-2022-12-12 (Public Finance)
- NEP-URE-2022-12-12 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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