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2016
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CESifo Working Paper No. 6244
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Zusammenfassung: 
This paper shows that the fiscal multiplier for purchases of durable and investment goods is very small - much smaller than the multiplier for nondurable goods. Standard models predict small durables multipliers because private sector purchases of durable goods are highly intertemporally substitutable and therefore easily crowded out. Empirical estimates based on U.S. data confirm this result. In aggregate time series data output rises by about 50 cents less if the government purchases 1$ of durable rather than nondurable goods. At the industry level, spending on durable goods leads to smaller sectoral expansions than spending on nondurable goods. The findings of this paper suggest that infrastructure spending which is frequently part of fiscal stimulus packages is relatively ineffective at raising aggregate demand.
Schlagwörter: 
durable goods
fiscal policy
government spending
fiscal multiplier
JEL: 
E21
E32
E62
E63
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