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Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Bob Buckle, Dasha Leonova, Renee Fry, Kam Szeto, and participants at a Workshop on Public Finance: Fiscal Indicators, Perugia (hosted by the Banca d‘Italia, 30 March-1 April 2006) for useful comments and suggestions.
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Table of Contents
- Abstract
- Acknowledgements
- Disclaimer
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Model and data
- 3 Effects of fiscal policy
- 4 Sensitivity analysis
- 5 Contributions of fiscal policy to New Zealand business cycles
- 6 Conclusions
- References
- Appendix A: Augmented Dickey-Fuller unit root tests
- Appendix B: Stability tests
- Appendix C: Normality and linearity tests
- Appendix D: Alternative ordering
- Appendix E: Alternative elasticities