The authors analyse the size of short-run fiscal multipliers associated with fiscal consolidation under two distinct alternative scenarios, viz "normal times" and "crisis times".
The crisis times scenario embodies a higher share of hand-to-mouth households, stronger nominal rigidities, and more severe financial frictions, which purportedly better reflect the underlying economic environment during the Great Recession. Results show that fiscal multipliers can be twice as large in crisis times, being approximately 2 for a government consumption-based fiscal consolidation in the first year.
One-year ahead effects are also substantially larger if this type of consolidation is performed in crisis times. Revenue-based fiscal consolidations are also more recessive in crisis times, though the differences against normal times are less pronounced.
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