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What Do We Know About the Effects of Austerity?

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2018

This paper summarizes the results of a large recent literature on multi year fiscal plans for deficit reduction (austerity). The key results are that deficit reduction policies based upon spending cuts are much less costly in terms of short run output losses than tax based adjustments. On...

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Fiscal Adjustments in OECD Countries : Composition and Macroeconomic Effects

Alesina, Alberto F.; Perotti, Roberto - 2021

This ppaer studies how the composition of fiscal adjustments influences their likelihood of success, defined as a long lasting deficit reduction, and their macroeconomic consequences. We find that fiscal adjustments which rely primarily on spending cuts on transfers and the government wage bill...

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The Costs and Benefits of Fiscal Rules : Evidence from U.S. States

Alesina, Alberto F.; Bayoumi, Tamim - 2022

This paper shows that in American states balanced budget rules are effective in enforcing fiscal discipline but they have no costs in terms of increased output variability. More specifically, we show that tighter fiscal rules are associated with larger average surplus and lower cyclical...

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New-Keynesian Economics : An As-Ad View

Benigno, Pierpaolo - 2010

economy is depressed because some agents are deleveraging, fiscal policy is more powerful and the multiplier can be quite big …

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Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy : A Linear Quadratic Approach

Benigno, Pierpaolo; Woodford, Michael - 2021

We propose an integrated treatment of the problems of optimal monetary and fiscal policy, for an economy in which …

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Understanding the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level

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

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Optimal Inflation Targeting Under Alternative Fiscal Regimes

Benigno, Pierpaolo; Woodford, Michael - 2021

Standard discussions of flexible inflation targeting as an optimal monetary policy abstract completely from the consequences of monetary policy for the government budget. But at least some of the countries now adopting inflation targeting have substantial difficulty in controlling fiscal...

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Monetary Policy in a Financial Crisis

Christiano, Lawrence J.; Gust, Christopher; Roldos, Jorge E. - 2021

What are the economic effects of an interest rate cut when an economy is in the midst of a financial crisis? Under what … ffects? We answer these questions in a general class of open economy models, where a financial crisis is modeled as a time … the traded good sector and in adjusting the rate at which that output can be used in other parts of the economy, then a …

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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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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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