Fiscal policy and private consumption behaviour: The Spanish case

Agustín García and Julian Ramajo

Empirical Economics, 2005, vol. 30, issue 1, 115-135

Abstract: In this article we analyse whether the Ricardian equivalence hypothesis is a valid approximation for Spain’s economic reality or whether there exist deviations from that situation which would be more in line with the conventional Keynesian perspective of the effects of debt on private consumption-savings decisions. Our aim is to contribute to the rather sparse empirical literature on the subject for the Spanish case. The analysis is based on annual aggregate data for Spain covering the years 1955 to 2000, and uses both the structural and the Euler equation approaches to test the neutrality proposition, and is thus to be considered as a generalization of foregoing work on the Spanish economy. The findings indicate that support for Ricardian equivalence is mixed, while we also find very little support for the Keynesian specification of consumption and fiscal policy. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2005

Keywords: Private consumption; fiscal policy; Ricardian equivalence; finite horizons; liquidity constraints; C32; E21; E62; H31; H60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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