Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/43234
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
CFS Working Paper No. 2009/17
Publisher: 
Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Financial Studies (CFS), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
Renewed interest in fiscal policy has increased the use of quantitative models to evaluate policy. Because of modeling uncertainty, it is essential that policy evaluations be robust to alternative assumptions. We find that models currently being used in practice to evaluate fiscal policy stimulus proposals are not robust. Government spending multipliers in an alternative empirically-estimated and widely-cited new Keynesian model are much smaller than in these old Keynesian models; the estimated stimulus is extremely small with GDP and employment effects only one-sixth as large.
Subjects: 
Fiscal Multiplier
New Keynesian Model
Fiscal Stimulus
Government Spending
Macroeconomic Modeling
JEL: 
C52
E62
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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