One approach to these questions would be to use historical data to measure the government spending multiplier (Barro, 1981; Alesina and Ardagna, 2009; Barro and Redlick, 2009; Mountford and Uhlig ...

Government Spending: The Zero Multiplier Model. Feb. 24, 2010 1:39 AM ET 3 Comments. Casey Mulligan. ... Government spending is not a perfect substitute for consumer spending, at all.

If the multiplier is below one, the government spending crowds out the private sector, hence reducing it all. Economic textbooks traditionally claim that the government multiplier is high.

If the multiplier is below one, the government spending crowds out the private sector, hence reducing it all. Economic textbooks traditionally claim that the government multiplier is high.

If the multiplier is below one, the government spending crowds out the private sector, hence reducing it all. Economic textbooks traditionally claim that the government multiplier is high.

For example, a GDP fiscal spending multiplier of 1.5 means that a $1 increase in government spending leads to a $1.50 increase in GDP. The term multiplier refers to the broad effects of government ...

There are always economists, journalists and pundits willing to assume that this time will be different and government spending will deliver on the promises made on its behalf by pro-spending advoc… ...

Basically, the multiplier is the effect of government spending permutating through the economy: I buy a wrench for my fighter jet from you, you hire workers, they feel richer and start shopping ...

What they found is that when the US Government spends a dollar during periods of high unemployment, the multiplier effect of that dollar is less than one. The economic benefit of a dollar spent by the ...

Government spending never enhances economic growth precisely because governments only have money to spend insofar as they have taxable access to private economic activity. In other words ...

We compute government spending multipliers for the Euro Area (EA) contingent on the interestgrowth differential, the so-called r-g. Whether the fiscal shock occurs when r-g is positive or negative ...