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Vol. 22, No. 3
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Last Updated: 09/04/1998

How does an increase in government purchases affect the economy?

Martin Eichenbaum, Jonas D. M. Fisher

This article studies the impact on aggregate economic activity of increases in defense purchases which are unrelated to other developments in the economy. The authors use empirical evidence to evaluate the predictions of several prominent macroeconomic models.

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