Using a comprehensive Euro Area regional dataset and exploiting exogenous variation in government spending, this paper finds that aging significantly enhances fiscal policy effectiveness. On average, a 10-year increase in median age raises the regional fiscal multiplier by 50%.
- Speaker
- Date
- Monday 20 Oct 2025, 11:30 - 12:30
- Type
- Seminar
- Room
- 2.14
- Space
- Langeveld Building
(with Yao Chen and Felix Ward)
This impact is heterogeneous and mediated by the institutional and structural context, specifically unemployment benefit generosity and the degree of nominal rigidity. Regions with low benefits or low nominal rigidity exhibit an attenuated or negative effect of aging on the fiscal multiplier.
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