Fiscal Multipliers in the ECCU
May 22, 2013
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Summary
The multipliers of taxes, and government consumption and investment expenditure for the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) are estimated using vector autoregression models with panel data. The impact and long-run multipliers are below unity, suggesting that a great extent of the intended impulse ends up expanding imported demand. The long-run multipliers of taxes and consumption expenditure are non-different from zero statistically, while public investment has a long-run multiplier of 0.6. The results suggest that countercyclical policies to stimulate growth should focus on public investment.
Subject: Expenditure, Fiscal multipliers, Fiscal policy, Public investment spending, Revenue administration
Keywords: ECCU, fiscal multiplier, Fiscal Multipliers, Global, government consumption expenditure, government investment expenditure multiplier, investment multiplier, OECS, Panel VAR, Public investment spending, public spending multiplier, time series, WP
Pages:
17
Volume:
2013
DOI:
Issue:
117
Series:
Working Paper No. 2013/117
Stock No:
WPIEA2013117
ISBN:
9781484359914
ISSN:
1018-5941
