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Large Changes in Fiscal Policy: Taxes Versus Spending Alberto F ...

However, we estimate a very different specification and, contrary to Romer and Romer (2007), our approach also controls for changes in government spending ...

Large Changes in Fiscal Policy: Taxes versus Spending

Our results suggest that tax cuts are more expansionary than spending increases in the cases of a fiscal stimulus. For fiscal adjustments we show that spending ...

Large changes in fiscal policy: taxes versus spending

Large changes in fiscal policy: taxes versus spending. Alberto Alesina, October 2009, Paper. "We examine the evidence on episodes of large stances in fiscal ...

All About Fiscal Policy: What It Is, Why It Matters, and Examples

This means that to help stabilize the economy, the government should run large budget deficits during economic downturns and run budget surpluses when the ...

Large Changes in Fiscal Policy: Taxes versus Spending

Fiscal stimuli based upon tax cuts are more likely to increase growth than those based upon spending increases. As for fiscal adjustments, those based upon ...

Large Changes in Fiscal Policy: Taxes Versus Spending | NBER

Fiscal stimuli based upon tax cuts are more likely to increase growth than those based upon spending increases. As for fiscal adjustments, those ...

Fiscal Policy: Taking and Giving Away

Fiscal policy is the use of government spending and taxation to influence the economy. Governments typically use fiscal policy to promote strong and ...

America's Fiscal Future | U.S. GAO

Unless current revenue and spending policies change, by 2028 debt will reach its historical high of 106 percent of GDP, according to our ...

Recent and Near-Term Fiscal Policy: Headwind or Tailwind?

As with spending, tax changes have knock-on effects, and the cumulative effect on GDP is called the tax multiplier. Because government spending ...

Five Fundamental Changes for U.S. Fiscal Policy

The CBO estimates that spending on Social Security and the major health care programs such as Medicaid and Medicare will climb to about 12.7 ...

Financial Report of the United States Government

If changes in fiscal policy are not so abrupt as to slow economic growth and those policy changes are adopted earlier, then the required changes ...

The Nation's Fiscal Health: Major Changes to Fiscal Policies Are ...

The report describes the federal government's unsustainable long-term fiscal path and calls on Congress to develop a plan to address the ...

Large Changes in Fiscal Policy: Taxes versus Spending

As for fiscal adjustments, those based upon spending cuts and no tax increases are more likely to reduce deficits and debt over GDP ratios than those based upon ...

Fiscal Policy: Balancing Between Tax Rates and Public Spending

The central idea of fiscal policy is to find a level of public spending that stimulates economic demand without creating an undue tax burden. For example, ...

Fiscal Policy - Harper College

this will reduce both unemployment and inflation. There are three determinants of AS: a. change in input prices price of resources AS. b. changes in ...

How pandemic-era fiscal policy affects the level of GDP

The largest boost to GDP growth in the early stages of the pandemic came from the large increases in spending on unemployment insurance and ...

Fiscal Policy, Economic Lowdown Podcasts | Education | St. Louis Fed

To combat inflation, the government could use contractionary fiscal policy. In this case, it might raise taxes and decrease government spending in an attempt ...

What characteristics make fiscal stimulus most effective?

Over the long run, permanent tax cuts or increases in government spending that are not matched by changes on the other side of the ledger reduce national saving ...

Could tax increases alone close the long-run fiscal gap?

The chosen target obviously matters a lot, with lower debt ratios requiring significantly larger changes in fiscal policy. For our purposes ...

The 2017 Trump Tax Law Was Skewed to the Rich, Expensive, and ...

The end result of these offsetting changes is only modest tax cuts for most families, which pale in comparison to the law's large net tax cuts ...