Fiscal Policy After the Financial Crisis

Focuses on the effects of fiscal stimuli and increased government spending, with contributions that consider the measurement of the multiplier effect and its size. This title also includes contributions discuss the merits of alternate means of debt reduction through decreased government spending or increased taxes.

About the author

Alberto Alesina is the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University and a research associate and director of the Political Economy Program of the NBER. Francesco Giavazzi is professor of economics at Bocconi University, Italy; visiting professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and a research associate of the NBER.

Summary

Focuses on the effects of fiscal stimuli and increased government spending, with contributions that consider the measurement of the multiplier effect and its size. This title also includes contributions discuss the merits of alternate means of debt reduction through decreased government spending or increased taxes.

Product details

• Authors: Alberto Alesina, Alberto Giavazzi Alesina, ALESINA ALBERTO GIAVAZZI FRANCES
• Assisted by: Alberto Alesina (Editor), Alesina Alberto (Editor), Francesco Giavazzi (Editor), Giavazzi Francesco (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.06.2013
• EAN: 9780226018447
• ISBN: 978-0-226-01844-7
• No. of pages: 704
• Series: National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report; National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report; (NBER) National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Reports (CHUP); (NBER) National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Reports
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrisen, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Political Economy, Economic & financial crises & disasters, Economic and financial crises and disasters