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Medium-Term Fiscal Multipliers during Protracted Recessions

By Salvatore Dell'Erba, Marcos Poplawski Ribeiro, Ksenia Koloskova

December 5, 2014

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Salvatore Dell'Erba, Marcos Poplawski Ribeiro, and Ksenia Koloskova. Medium-Term Fiscal Multipliers during Protracted Recessions, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2014) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

The paper examines the consequences of fiscal consolidation in times of persistently low growth and high unemployment by estimating medium-term fiscal multipliers during protracted recessions (PR) in a sample of 17 OECD countries. Based on Jorda’s (2005) local projection methodology, we find that cumulative fiscal multipliers related to output, employment and unemployment at five-year horizons are significantly above one during PR episodes. These results suggest that medium-term fiscal consolidation plans to reduce public debt burdens should proceed gradually if economic activity remains below trend for a prolonged period.

Subject: Employment, Fiscal consolidation, Fiscal multipliers, Fiscal policy, Labor, Labor markets, Unemployment

Keywords: Consolidation multiplier, Cumulative multipliers, EB consolidation, EB multiplier, Employment, Fiscal consolidation, Fiscal consolidations, Fiscal multipliers, Fiscal policy, Global, Labor market, Labor markets, Labour market, Output effect, PR episode, PR period, Protracted recessions, Real GDP, TB consolidation, Unemployment, Unemployment multiplier, Unemployment rate, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    42

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2014/213

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2014213

  • ISBN:

    9781498336192

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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