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15 - What Do We Know about Fiscal Multipliers?

from Part IV - The Comeback of Discretionary Fiscal Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2017

By
Carlo Favero  and
Madina Karamysheva
Edited by
Ľudovít Ódor
Ľudovít Ódor
Affiliation:
Council for Budget Responsibility, Slovakia
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Rethinking Fiscal Policy after the Crisis , pp. 443 - 482
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Print publication year: 2017

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