Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/144490 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
NBB Working Paper No. 278
Publisher: 
National Bank of Belgium, Brussels
Abstract: 
This paper employs fifteen dynamic macroeconomic models maintained within the European System of Central Banks to assess the size of fiscal multipliers in European countries. Using a set of common simulations, we consider transitory and permanent shocks to government expenditures and different taxes. We investigate how the baseline multipliers change when monetary policy is transitorily constrained by the zero nominal interest rate bound, certain crisis-related structural features of the economy such as the share of liquidity-constrained households change, and the endogenous fiscal rule that ensures fiscal sustainability in the long run is specified in terms of labour income taxes instead of lump-sum taxes.
Subjects: 
Fiscal policy
Output multipliers
Model comparison
Zero lower bound
JEL: 
E12
E13
E17
E62
E63
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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