How much did fiscal policy contribute to euro area real GDP growth during the Great Recession? We estimate that discretionary fiscal measures have increased annualized quarterly real GDP growth during the crisis by up to 1.6 percentage points. We obtain our result by using an extended version of the European Central Bank’s New Area-Wide Model with a rich specification of the fiscal sector. A detailed modeling of the fiscal sector and the incorporation of as many as eight fiscal time series appear pivotal for our result.
Keywords: fiscal policy, DSGE modeling, Bayesian inference, Euro area
JEL Classification: C11, E32, E62
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Coenen, Günter and Straub, Roland and Trabandt, Mathias, Fiscal policy and the Great Recession in the Euro Area (March 22, 2012). ECB Working Paper No. 1429, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2027446 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2027446
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