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ECONOMIC CHANGE AND RESTRUCTURING
Volume 56, Issue 2, Pages 1033-1061Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10644-022-09459-4
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Fiscal policy; Monetary policy; Fluctuations; SVAR
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The study finds that an increase in government spending has an expansionary effect on output, while shocks in net taxes have a contractionary effect. Fiscal policy shocks have a larger contribution than monetary policy shocks in explaining output fluctuations. Considering both policy variables improves the quality of studying the impact on output.
A structural VAR approach is used to examine the role of monetary and fiscal policies in explaining macroeconomic fluctuations in Ethiopia. The main results are that an increase in government spending has an expansionary effect on output, while shocks in net taxes have a contractionary effect, with relatively small and statistically significant spending and net tax multipliers; that fiscal shocks are shown to have no significant effect on the exchange rate and a statistically significant effects inflation; that contractionary monetary policy is associated with a fall in output; and that the contributions of fiscal policy shocks are larger than that of monetary policy shocks in explaining movements in output, with roughly equivalent contributions coming from shocks in fiscal policy components. Moreover, the effect of fiscal and monetary policy shocks on output improved qualitatively and quantitatively when both policy variables were jointly examined rather than estimating them separately, suggesting the importance of joint analysis.
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