Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/37206 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2010: Ökonomie der Familie - Session: Empirical Analyses of Fiscal Policy No. B9-V2
Publisher: 
Verein für Socialpolitik, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
Large parts of the empirical economic literature state that policy makers have ex-post proven to be unable to time fiscal policy measures countercyclically. In this paper we expand the usually applied empirical approaches and allow for changing reaction patterns over time by employing not only VAR- but as well time-varying parameter VAR estimation techniques on quarterly fiscal data for Germany from 1970-2008. Our analysis shows not a general a-cyclical pattern but three distinct phases of different fiscal policy timing indicating possible misspecifications of time-invariant analyses.
JEL: 
E62
E32
D78
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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