Multiplier effect
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The multiplier effect is the effect of an injection or withdrawal of income upon the level of activity in an economy. Estimates of its magnitude are consequently a major factor in the formulation of fiscal policy. Its existence, and the factors that determine it, can be established by logical deduction, but estimates of its magnitude depend upon induction