Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/228268 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
ESRI Working Paper No. 620
Publisher: 
The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin
Abstract: 
This paper presents FIR-GEM: Fiscal IRish General Equilibrium Model. FIR-GEM is a small open economy DSGE model designed as fiscal toolkit for fiscal policy analysis in Ireland. To illustrate the model's potential for fiscal policy analysis, we conduct three types of experiments. First, we analyse the fiscal transmission mechanism through which Irish fiscal policy affects the Irish economy. Second, we compute fiscal multipliers for the main tax-spending instruments, namely government consumption, public investment, public wage bill, public transfers, consumption, labour and capital tax. We focus on a fiscal policy stimulus that is either implemented through spending increases or tax cuts. Third, we perform robustness analysis on key structural characteristics that can affect quantitatively the size of fiscal multipliers. We find that the size of fiscal multipliers in the Irish economy heavily depends on its degree of openness, the method of fiscal financing employed, the elasticity of the sovereign risk premia to Irish debt dynamics and the flexibility of Irish labour and product markets.
Subjects: 
Fiscal policy
DSGE
Ireland
Openness
JEL: 
E62
F41
F42
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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