Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/153916 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 1483
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We seek to quantify the impact on euro area GDP of the European Economic Recovery Plan (EERP) enacted in response to the financial crisis of 2008-09. To do so, we estimate an extended version of the ECB’s New Area-Wide Model with a richly specified fiscal sector. The estimation results point to the existence of important complementarities between private and government consumption and, to a lesser extent, between private and public capital. We first examine the implied present-value multipliers for seven distinct fiscal instruments and show that the estimated complementarities result in fiscal multipliers larger than one for government consumption and investment. We highlight the importance of monetary accommodation for these findings. We then show that the EERP, if implemented as initially enacted, had a sizeable, although short-lived impact on euro area GDP. Since the EERP comprised both revenue and expenditurebased fiscal stimulus measures, the total multiplier is below unity.
Subjects: 
Bayesian inference
DSGE modelling
euro area
European Economic Recovery Plan
fiscal multiplier
Fiscal Policy
JEL: 
C11
E32
E62
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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