The macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy

Applied Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 34, 2012, Pages 4439-4454

  Afonso, António ^a,b   Sousa, Ricardo M ^c,d  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian structural VAR; Debt dynamics; Fiscal policy

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DEBT; FISCAL POLICY; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; MACROECONOMICS; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSION;

GERMANY; ITALY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052071461     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2011.591732     Document Type: Article

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