Discover how the equity multiplier measures asset financing through stock versus debt, and what it means for company leverage ...

Two papers I saw presented this morning took very different approaches to reach a similar conclusion—inside a currency union there can be big fiscal policy multipliers. In other words, large positive ...

The United States has implemented large-scale fiscal policy measures to help households and businesses cushion the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and to strengthen the recovery. The ...

This paper provides background information for policymakers on fiscal multipliers, including quantitative estimates. The fiscal multiplier is the ratio of a change in output to an exogenous change in ...

Daboh, F., Ngebeh, R. and Beah, A. (2026) The Fiscal Multiplier Effect: A Quantitative Analysis of Government Spending’s Impact on Economic Growth in Sierra Leone . Open Access Library Journal, 13, ...

This paper provides a general framework to assess the output and debt dynamics of an economy undertaking multi-year fiscal adjustment. The framework allows country-specific assumptions about the ...

THE cryptic phrase "fiscal cliff" is creeping into news reports and economic analyses (including our own). Alongside "grexit" and "hard landing" it lurks as a mysterious and malevolent force waiting ...

The severe global economic downturn and the large stimulus programs that governments in many countries adopted in response have generated a resurgence in research on the effects of fiscal policy. One ...

Michael Boyle is an experienced financial professional with more than 10 years working with financial planning, derivatives, equities, fixed income, project management, and analytics. Investopedia / ...

IT IS the biggest peacetime fiscal expansion in history. Across the globe countries have countered the recession by cutting taxes and by boosting government spending. The G20 group of economies, whose ...