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Policymakers, faced with different options for replacing lost earnings, have had limited evidence to inform their decisions. The current economic crisis has highlighted the need for data that are local and timely so that different fiscal policy options on local economies can be more immediately...
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. The basic framework considers an economy with a large informal production sector and a heterogeneous work force. The labor … improves competitiveness, and expands the formal sector at the expense of the informal sector. Hence, in a two-sector economy …
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control inflation and influence the economy in the usual ways. The paper discusses models of fiscal limits and their … implications and lays out a research agenda to integrate political economy and empirical considerations with general equilibrium …
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Monetary policy decisions tend to be based on systematic analysis of alternative policy choices and their associated macroeconomic impacts: this is science. Fiscal policy choices, in contrast, spring from unsystematic speculation, grounded more in politics than economics: this is alchemy. In...
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Bayesian prior predictive analysis of five nested DSGE models suggests that model specifications and prior distributions tightly circumscribe the range of possible government spending multipliers. Multipliers are decomposed into wealth and substitution effects, yielding uniform comparisons...
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The Chinese economy has undergone three major phases: the 1978-1997 period marked as the SOE-led economy, the 1998 …-2015 phase as the investment-driven economy, and the new normal economy since 2016. All three economies have been shaped by the … one economy to another was driven mainly by regime changes in financial policies …
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We use Bayesian prior and posterior analysis of a monetary DSGE model, extended to include fiscal details and two distinct monetary-fiscal policy regimes, to quantify government spending multipliers in U.S. data. The combination of model specification, observable data, and relatively diffuse...
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