Replication data for: How Does the US Government Finance Fiscal Shocks?
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Antje Berndt; Hanno Lustig; Şevin Yeltekin
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Project Citation:
Berndt, Antje, Lustig, Hanno, and Yeltekin, Sevin. Replication data for: How Does the US Government Finance Fiscal Shocks? Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2012. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114239V1
Project Description
Summary:
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We develop a method for identifying and quantifying the fiscal channels that help finance government spending shocks. We define fiscal shocks as surprises in defense spending and show that they are more precisely identified when defense stock data are used in addition to aggregate macroeconomic data. Our results show that in the postwar period, about 9 percent of the US government's unanticipated spending needs were financed by a reduction in the market value of debt and more than 70 percent by an increase in primary surpluses. Additionally, we find that long-term debt is more effective at absorbing fiscal risk than short-term debt. (JEL E62, H56, and H63)
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JEL Classification:
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E62 Fiscal Policy
H56 National Security and War
H63 National Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt
E62 Fiscal Policy
H56 National Security and War
H63 National Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt
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