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Romer, Christina D.; Romer, David H. - 2022

This paper analyzes the contributions of monetary and fiscal policy to postwar economic recoveries. We find that the Federal Reserve typically responds to downturns with prompt and large reductions in interest rates. Discretionary fiscal policy, in contrast, rarely reacts before the trough in...

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The Evolution of Economic Understanding and Postwar Stabilization Policy

Romer, Christina D.; Romer, David H. - 2022

functioning of the economy and the effects of policy. We document the changes in beliefs using contemporaneous discussions of the … economy and policy by monetary and fiscal policymakers and, for the period since the late 1960s, using the Federal Reserve …'s internal forecasts. We find that policymakers' understanding of the economy has not exhibited steady improvement. Instead, the …

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Understanding the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level

Christiano, Lawrence J.; Fitzgerald, Terry J. - 2021

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The Great Depression and the Friedman-Schwartz Hypothesis

Christiano, Lawrence J.; Motto, Roberto; Rostagno, Massimo - 2022

We evaluate the Friedman-Schwartz hypothesis that a more accommodative monetary policy could have greatly reduced the severity of the Great Depression. To do this, we first estimate a dynamic, general equilibrium model using data from the 1920s and 1930s. Although the model includes eight...

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Fiscal Space and the Aftermath of Financial Crises : How it Matters and Why

Romer, Christina D. - 2019

In OECD countries over the period 1980–2017, countries with lower debt-to-GDP ratios responded to financial distress with much more expansionary fiscal policy and suffered much less severe aftermaths. Two lines of evidence together suggest that the relationship between the debt ratio and the...

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Government Policy, Credit Markets and Economic Activity

Christiano, Lawrence J. - 2011

The US government has recently conducted large scale purchases of assets and implemented policies that reduced the cost of funds to financial institutions. Arguably these policies have helped to correct credit market dysfunctions, allowing interest rate spreads to shrink and output to begin a...

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Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Business Cycle Model

Chari, Varadarajan V. - 2012

This paper develops the quantitative implications of optimal fiscal policy in a business cycle model. In a stationary equilibrium the ex ante tax rate on capital income is approximately zero. There is an equivalence class of ex post capital income tax rates and bond policies that support a given...

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Taylor Rules in a Limited Participation Model

Christiano, Lawrence J.; Gust, Christopher - 2021

rules for setting the rate of interest. Rules are evaluated according to their ability to protect the economy from bad …

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Shocks, Structures or Monetary Policies? The Euro Area and Us after 2001

Christiano, Lawrence J. - 2008

The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates more vigorously in the recent recession than the European Central Bank did. By comparison with the Fed, the ECB followed a more measured course of action. We use an estimated dynamic general equilibrium model with financial frictions to show that...

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Firm-Specific Capital, Nominal Rigidities and the Business Cycle

Altig, David; Christiano, Lawrence J.; Lindé, Jesper - 2010

traded in economy-wide rental markets, we find that firms reoptimize their prices on average once every 9 quarters. We argue …

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