Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/184768 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 817
Publisher: 
Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance, London
Abstract: 
This paper uses a range of structural VARs to show that the response of US stock prices to fiscal shocks changed in 1980. Over the period 1955-1980 an expansionary spending or revenue shock was associated with modestly higher stock prices. After 1980, along with a decline in the fiscal multiplier, the response of stock prices to the same shock became negative and larger in magnitude. We use an estimated DSGE model to show that this change is consistent with a switch from an economy characterised by active fiscal policy and passive monetary policy to one where fiscal policy was passive and the central bank acted aggressively in response to inflationary shocks.
Subjects: 
Fiscal policy shocks
Stock prices
VAR
DSGE
JEL: 
C5
E1
E5
E6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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