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Government Spending Shocks in Quarterly and Annual Time Series
Author(s) -
BORN BENJAMIN,
MÜLLER GERNOT J.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of money, credit and banking
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.763
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1538-4616
pISSN - 0022-2879
DOI - 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2011.00498.x
Subject(s) - government spending , series (stratigraphy) , government (linguistics) , economics , time series , data series , macroeconomics , econometrics , statistics , paleontology , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics , welfare , market economy , biology
Government spending shocks are frequently identified in quarterly time‐series data by ruling out a contemporaneous response of government spending to other macroeconomic aggregates. We provide evidence that this assumption may not be too restrictive for annual time‐series data.