In this paper we study the response of unemployment to monetary policy and government spending shocks in the peripheral Euro-area countries. By applying the structural near-VAR methodology, we jointly model area-wide and national variables. Our main finding is that fiscal multipliers vary across countries and the results are consistent with the prediction of the standard New Keynesian model only in Italy and Greece. Instead, in Ireland, Portugal and Spain increases in government spending are recessionary. Thus we find that Keynesian results of fiscal policy seem to prevail in high public-debt countries, whereas non-Keynesian outcomes seem to characterize high private-debt countries. As for the monetary policy shock, we find that it plays an important role, jointly with the other area-wide shocks, as a long-term driver of national unemployment.

The dynamic effects of monetary policy and government spending shocks on unemployment in the peripheral Euro area countries / Dallari, P.; Ribba, A.. - In: ECONOMIC MODELLING. - ISSN 0264-9993. - 85:(2020), pp. 218-232. [10.1016/j.econmod.2019.05.018]

The dynamic effects of monetary policy and government spending shocks on unemployment in the peripheral Euro area countries

Dallari P.;Ribba A.
2020

Abstract

In this paper we study the response of unemployment to monetary policy and government spending shocks in the peripheral Euro-area countries. By applying the structural near-VAR methodology, we jointly model area-wide and national variables. Our main finding is that fiscal multipliers vary across countries and the results are consistent with the prediction of the standard New Keynesian model only in Italy and Greece. Instead, in Ireland, Portugal and Spain increases in government spending are recessionary. Thus we find that Keynesian results of fiscal policy seem to prevail in high public-debt countries, whereas non-Keynesian outcomes seem to characterize high private-debt countries. As for the monetary policy shock, we find that it plays an important role, jointly with the other area-wide shocks, as a long-term driver of national unemployment.
2020
5-giu-2019
85
218
232
The dynamic effects of monetary policy and government spending shocks on unemployment in the peripheral Euro area countries / Dallari, P.; Ribba, A.. - In: ECONOMIC MODELLING. - ISSN 0264-9993. - 85:(2020), pp. 218-232. [10.1016/j.econmod.2019.05.018]
Dallari, P.; Ribba, A.
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