Cronin, David and McQuinn, Kieran (2020) Fiscal policy and growth forecasts in the EU: Are official forecasters still misestimating fiscal multipliers? ESRI Working Paper 682 November 2020. [Working Paper]
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Abstract
Blanchard and Leigh (2013, 2014) find fiscal multipliers to be underestimated in the EU in the deep recession of the early 2010s. Using two 2013-2018 datasets for 26 EU member states, assembled from Stability and Convergence Programmes and the European Commission’s Spring Forecasts, we show that multiplier estimates in the EU have been overestimated in the post-crisis period. Forecasters then are still not capturing accurately the impact that fiscal policy has on output growth rates and are misestimating in a manner opposite to that reported by Blanchard and Leigh. This result is pertinent at a time when fiscal stimulus is occurring in many member states in response to the adverse economic effects of Covid-19.
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Subjects for non-EU documents: | EU policies and themes > EU institutions & developments > European Commission EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > economic and financial affairs > economic growth EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > economic and financial affairs > fiscal policy |
Subjects for EU documents: | UNSPECIFIED |
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EU Annual Reports: | UNSPECIFIED |
Series: | Series > Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin > ESRI Working Papers |
Depositing User: | Daniel Pennell |
Official EU Document: | No |
Language: | English |
Date Deposited: | 23 Aug 2021 10:39 |
Number of Pages: | 13 |
Last Modified: | 23 Aug 2021 10:39 |
URI: | http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/103528 |
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