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The Effects of Fiscal Shocks on the Exchange Rate in Spain

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Title The Effects of Fiscal Shocks on the Exchange Rate in Spain
 
Creator de Castro, Francisco
Fernández, Laura
 
Subject fiscal shocks; exchange rates; Spain
 
Description We analyse the impact of fiscal shocks on the Spanish effective exchange rate over the period 1981-2008 using a standard structural VAR framework. Government spending brings about positive responses of output and private consumption, jointly with real appreciation and a fall in trade balances. Real appreciation is explained by persistent nominal appreciation and higher relative prices. Accordingly, our results are largely consistent with the predictions of not only the conventional Mundell-Fleming model, but also of a number of New Keynesian models under standard calibrations. Moreover, our estimations are also consistent with the “twin deficits” hypothesis.
 
Publisher The Economic and Social Review
 
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Date 2013-09-10
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.esr.ie/article/view/67
 
Source The Economic and Social Review; Vol 44, No 2, Summer (2013); 151–180
0012-9984
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.esr.ie/article/view/67/58
 
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