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2020
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IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-01113
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Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Zusammenfassung: 
This paper provides evidence on the effect of fiscal stimulus on economic activity in countries with different degrees of institutional quality. The identification strategy makes use of data on military expenditure to instrument government consumption using local lineal projections as presented in Jordà (2005 ). Based on a panel of 113 countries during the period 1988-2017 , the analysis finds evidence that an increment of 1 percent in government consumption yields a sizable, persistent, and stable increase in economic activity of 0.9 percent in countries with higher institutional quality. In contrast, for countries with lower institutional quality, the effect is smaller (0.4 percent) and more short-lived
Schlagwörter: 
fiscal policy
economic activity
institutional quality
JEL: 
E02
E32
E62
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