US fiscal indicators, inflation and output
Aksoy, Yunus and Melina, Giovanni (2009) US fiscal indicators, inflation and output. Project Report. Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK.
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Abstract
In this paper we explore the information content of a large set of fiscal indicators for US real output growth and inflation. We provide evidence that fluctuations in certain fiscal variables contain valuable information to predict fluctuations in output and prices. The distinction between federal and state-local fiscal indicators yields useful insights and helps define a new set of stylized facts for US macroeconomic conditions. First, we find that variations in state-local indirect taxes as well as state government surplus or deficit help predict output growth. Next, the federal counterparts of these indicators contain valuable information for inflation. Finally, state-local expenditures help predict US inflation. A set of formal and informal stability tests confirm that these relationships are stable. The fiscal indicators in questions are also among the ones that yield the best in-sample and out-of-sample performances.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Monograph (Project Report) |
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| Additional Information: | BWPEF 0918 |
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Information value, state-local fi�nances, fi�scal variables, Granger causality |
| School: | Birkbeck Schools and Departments > School of Business, Economics & Informatics > Economics, Mathematics and Statistics |
| Research Centre: | Applied Macroeconomics, Birkbeck Centre for |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Jul 2013 11:15 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Jul 2019 16:10 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/7603 |
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