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How little we know about budget policy effects

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  • Preston J. Miller
  • Will Roberds

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Using a simple model, we show why previous empirical studies of budget policy effects are flawed. Due to an identification problem, those studies’ findings can be shown to be consistent with either policies mattering or not.

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Paper provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis in its series Staff Report with number 120.

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Date of creation: 1989
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Publication status: Published in Quarterly Review (Vol 16, Num 1, Winter 1992, pp. 2-11)
Handle: RePEc:fip:fedmsr:120

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  1. Khalid, Ahmed M., 1996. "Ricardian equivalence: Empirical evidence from developing economies," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 51(2), pages 413-432, December.

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