TY - GEN AU - Avellán, Leopoldo AU - Galindo, Arturo AU - Leon-Diaz, John TI - The Role of Institutional Quality on the Effects of Fiscal Stimulus PY - 2020 Y1 - 2020/03/31 DO - 10.18235/0002316 AB - This paper provides evidence on the effect of fiscal stimulus on economic activity for countries with different degrees of institutional quality. For a panel of 113 countries during the period 1988-2017, we find evidence that an increment of 1% in government consumption yields a sizable, persistent and stable increase in economic activity of 0.9% in countries with higher institutional quality. UR - https://doi.org/10.18235/0002316 ER -