@techreport{NBERw6737,
 title = "Understanding the Effects of a Shock to Government Purchases",
 author = "Wendy Edelberg and Martin Eichenbaum and Jonas D.M. Fisher",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "6737",
 year = "1998",
 month = "September",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w6737",
 abstract = {This paper investigates the consequences of an exogenous increase in U.S. government purchases.  We find that in response to such a shock, employment, output, and nonresidential investment rise, while real wages, residential investment, and consumption expenditures fall.  The paper argues that a simple variant of the neoclassical model which distinguishes between nonresidential and residential investment is consistent with this evidence.},
}