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US fiscal policy shocks: Proxy-SVAR overidentification via GMM (replication d...
Using external instruments one can recover the effects of individual shocks without fully identifying a VAR. We show that fully or almost fully instrumenting a VAR--that is,... -
Heterogeneous responses to corporate marginal tax rates: Evidence from small ...
Do small and large firms respond differently to tax cuts? Using new narrative measures of the exogenous variation in corporate marginal tax rates and a unique dataset of U.S.... -
Fiscal targets: A guide to forecasters? (replication data)
We formulate and estimate empirical models for a selection of EU countries (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland) to show that ex-ante government (consumption)... -
The impact of forecast errors on fiscal planning and debt accumulation
We investigate the impact of errors in medium run tax revenue forecasts on the final budget balance. Our analysis is based on fiscal data for the entirety of German states and... -
The Estimation of Reaction Functions under Tax Competition
Most of the empirical literature on tax competition has been using panel models in which each country's tax rate responds to a weighted average of other countries' tax rates,... -
COVID-19 and Financial Markets: A Panel Analysis for European Countries (data)
The data set presented here provides granular data on monetary, fiscal and European policy responses to the first wave of the Covid-crisis for a large set of 29 European... -
Thoughts on a Fiscal Union in EMU
Using an estimated large-scale New-Keynesian model, we assess the consequences of introducing a fiscal union within EMU. We differentiate between three different scenarios:...
