The real interest rate response to a tax cut is displayed in panel B of Table 15. In S1,
at 1 year is positive only in the US; at 3 years, it is zero or negative everywhere, except in
Germany. In S2, the response is smaller than in S1 in the US, the UK and Australia, and
virtually the same in the other countries. Thus, contrary to the case of spending shocks,
there is now little evidence that the response of the real rate has increased in S2. The
results for the ex-ante real rate (panel C) are more difficult to distil: but at 3 years there
is evidence of a stronger response in S2 in the UK and Germany, while it changes little
in the other countries