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Partisanship and Fiscal Policy in Economic Unions: Evidence from U.S. States / Gerald Carlino, Thorsten Drautzburg, Robert P. Inman, Nicholas Zarra.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carlino, Gerald.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w28425.
- NBER working paper series no. w28425
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021.
- Summary:
- Partisanship of state level politicians affect the impact of federal fiscal policy in the U.S. Using data from close gubernatorial elections, we find partisan differences in the marginal propensity to spend federal transfers since the early 1980's: Republican governors spend less. A New Keynesian model of partisan states in a monetary union implies sizable aggregate income effects from these partisan differences. First, the transfer multiplier would rise by 0.60 if Republican governors were to spend as much from federal aid as do Democratic governors. Second, the observed changes in the share of Republican governors imply variation in the fiscal multiplier of 0.40. Local projection regressions support this prediction.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- February 2021.
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