Government spending and unemployment in the OECD
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2012-03-07
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We use a panel VAR to assess the dynamic effects of government spending on unemployment rates in OECD countries. We first present Monte Carlo evidence that the Hahn and
Kuersteiner (2002) estimator produces almost unbiased estimates of impulse responses in
an annual macro panel VAR. In the application, we find that positive shocks to government spending identified either through a Cholesky decomposition or by sign restrictions tend to lower the unemployment rate in the short run, though signifi cance depends on identification assumptions.
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fiscal policy effects, panel vector autoregressions, sign restrictions, simulation, unemployment