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How little we know about budget policy effects

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  • Preston J. Miller
  • William 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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  • Preston J. Miller & William Roberds, 1989. "How little we know about budget policy effects," Staff Report 120, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
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