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Fiscal stimulus in a global zero lower bound environment

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  • Fernando Garcia-Barragan
  • Guangling Dave Liu

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This paper investigates the effect of fi scal stimulus from an emerging market economy perspective. The model captures the significant decline in China’s net exports and remarkable quantity of resources that the Chinese government invested into the economy through state-owned enterprises in the aftermath of the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. Our results suggest that scal […]

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  • Fernando Garcia-Barragan & Guangling Dave Liu, 2018. "Fiscal stimulus in a global zero lower bound environment," Working Papers 758, Economic Research Southern Africa.
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    Keywords

    Emerging economies; fiscal policy;

    JEL classification:

    • E4 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
    • E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
    • F41 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Open Economy Macroeconomics
    • H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures

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