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Optimal Taxation and Constrained Inefficiency in an Infinite-Horizon Economy with Incomplete Markets
Gottardi, Piero; Kajii, Atsushi; Nakajima, Tomoyuki - CESifo - 2011
We study the dynamic Ramsey problem of finding optimal public debt and linear taxes on capital and labor income within a tractable infinite horizon model with incomplete markets. With zero public expenditure and debt, it is optimal to tax the risky labor income and subsidize capital, while a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293486
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Illiquidity and Under-Valuation of Firms
Gale, Douglas; Gottardi, Piero - CESifo - 2009
We study a competitive model in which market incompleteness implies that debt-financed firms may default in some states … of nature and default may lead to the sale of the firms’ assets at fire sale prices when markets are illiquid. This … incompleteness is the only friction in the model and the only cost of default. The anticipation of such losses alone may distort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572580
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Analysis of Monetary Policy and Financial Stability: A New Paradigm
Goodhart, Charles A. E.; Osorio, Carolina; Tsomocos, … - CESifo - 2009
This paper introduces agent heterogeneity, liquidity, and endogenous default to a DSGE framework. Our model allows for … the economy. Due to liquidity and endogenous default, the transmission mechanism of shocks is well defined, and their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583683
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Asset Price Shocks, Real Expenditures, and Financial Structure: A Multi-Country Analysis
Chirinko, Robert S.; Haan, Leo de; Sterken, Elmer - CESifo - 2008
This paper examines the responses of private consumption, residential investment, and business investment in 11 EU countries, Japan, and the United States to shocks in housing and equity prices. The effects are assessed with a Structural Vector Auto Regressive (SVAR) model, and four key findings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196187
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Productivity as if Space Mattered: An Application to Factor Markets Across China
Cheng, Wenya; Morrow, John; Tacharoen, Kitjawat - CESifo - 2013
Although firms may face radically different production conditions, this dimension of firm heterogeneity is often overlooked. We model input demand across local factor markets, explicitly considering search costs which explain why firms care about both the price and availability of inputs. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877649
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Trade and Imperfect Competition in General Equilibrium
Koska, Onur A.; Stähler, Frank - CESifo - 2011
This paper employs a general equilibrium model of imperfect competition and trade in which capital is used to establish firms and labor is used for production. We show that two different types of equilibria may exist, one with factor price equalization and one with different factor prices. When...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274515
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Exit and Power in General Equilibrium
Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - CESifo - 2008
We integrate individual power in groups into general equilibrium models. The relationship between group formation, resource allocation, and the power of specific individuals or particular sociological groups is investigated. We introduce, via an illustrative example, three appealing concepts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766012
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Competitive Markets, Collective Decisions and Group Formation
Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - CESifo - 2003
We consider a general equilibrium model where groups operating in a competitive market environment can have several members and make efficient collective consumption decisions. Individuals have the option to leave the group and make it on their own or join another group. We study the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766089
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Bargaining Power and Equilibrium Consumption
Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - CESifo - 2005
We examine how a shift of bargaining power within households operating in a competitive market environment affects equilibrium allocation and welfare. If price effects are sufficiently small, then typically an individual benefits from an increase of bargaining power, necessarily to the detriment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766162
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Analyzing a Flat Income Tax in the Netherlands
Mooij, Ruud A. De; Jacobs, Bas; Folmer, Kees - CESifo - 2007
A flat tax rate on income has gained popularity in European countries. This paper assesses the attractiveness of such a flat tax in achieving redistributive objectives with the least cost to labour market performance. We do so by using a detailed applied general equilibrium model for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094497