Project

Structural determinants of government spending multipliers

Code

01D01313

Duration

01 October 2013 → 30 September 2017

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Gert Peersman

Fellow

Marco Bernardini

Research disciplines

Social sciences
- Agricultural and natural resource economics, environmental and ecological economics
- Economic growth and aggregate productivity
- Macroeconomic policy, macroeconomic aspects of public finance and general outlook
- Monetary policy, central banking and the supply of money and credit
- Money and interest rates
- Prices, business fluctuations and cycles
- Macroeconomics and monetary economics not elsewhere classified

Keywords

fiscal multiplier DSGE SVAR

Project description

In this project, we analyze the structural determinants of the fiscal multiplier over time and across countries. We use structural vector autoregressive techniques, as well as dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models to do so.