What determines government spending multipliers?

Economic Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 72, 2012, Pages 521-565

  Corsetti, Giancarlo ^a,b,c   Meier, André ^a,b,c   Müller, Gernot J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC IMPACT; EXCHANGE RATE; FINANCIAL CRISIS; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; MACROECONOMICS; OECD; PUBLIC SPENDING;

EID: 84867706380     PISSN: 02664658     EISSN: 14680327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0327.2012.00295.x     Document Type: Article

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