Fiscal and monetary policies in the BRICS: a panel VAR approach

Using a Panel Vector Auto-Regressive (PVAR) model, we assess the macroeconomic impact of fiscal policy and monetary policy shocks for five key emerging market economies—Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We show that monetary contractions lead to a fall in real economic activity...

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Main Author: Jawadi, Fredj (author)
Other Authors: Mallick, Sushanta K. (author), Sousa, Ricardo M. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/38019
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/38019