Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/113164 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2015: Ökonomische Entwicklung - Theorie und Politik - Session: Fiscal policy No. D01-V2
Publisher: 
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
Abstract: 
We use quantile regression methods to estimate the effects of government spending shocks on output and unemployment rates. This allows to uncover nonlinear effects of fiscal policy by letting the parameters of either vector autoregressive models or local projection regressions vary across the conditional distribution of macroeconomic activity. In quarterly US data, we find that fiscal output multipliers are notably larger for lower quantiles of the conditional distribution of GDP deviations from trend. Conversely, higher government spending appears to lower the rate of unemployment significantly only at its highest deciles.
JEL: 
E62
E32
C32
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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