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Optimal Fiscal Policy and Government Provision of Contingent Liabilities : The Example of Government Loan and Deposit Guarantees
International Monetary Fund - 1989
sector’s loan portfolio to eliminate risk, full government guarantee of private sector loans (or deposits) is suboptimal. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395814
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Japan's Household Savings Rate : An Application of the Life-Cycle Hypothesis
International Monetary Fund - 1987
This paper develops and tests a model of Japan’s household savings rate, based on the life-cycle hypothesis that the … primary motive for savings is provision for retirement. The paper shows that Japan’s high household savings rate in recent … improvements in public pension benefits and the aging of the population. It projects that the savings rate will decline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395990
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Factors Affecting Saving, Policy tools, and Tax Reform : A Review
International Monetary Fund - 1989
, the limited tools available to policymakers to affect savings are discussed. Finally, the extent to which recent tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396192
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Social Security Tax Reform and Unemployment : A General Equilibrium Analysis for France
International Monetary Fund - 1997
This paper develops and calibrates a simple general equilibrium model with two types of labor and capital for the French economy. The simulation results indicate that targeted reductions in employer social security taxes have six times as large an effect on employment as untargeted reductions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401626
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Neglected Heterogeneity and Dynamics in Cross-Country Savings Regressions
International Monetary Fund - 1999
This paper examines the extent to which conclusions of cross-country studies of private savings are robust to allowing … for the possible heterogeneity of savings behavior across countries and the inclusion of dynamics. It shows that … neglecting heterogeneity and dynamics can lead to misleading inferences about the key determinants of savings behavior. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400163
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Saving-Investment Correlations : Immobile Capital. Government Policy or Endogenous Behavior?
International Monetary Fund - 1989
This paper analyzes reasons for the high post-war correlations of saving and investment, both across countries and over time. It is concluded that the main reason for the observed high correlations over the recent period is probably government policy
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396226
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Fiscal Policy and Private Sector Saving Behavior : Tests of Ricardian Equivalence in Some Developing Economies
International Monetary Fund - 1987
Tax or debt financing of a given rate of government expenditures would, according to the now well-known Ricardian Equivalence proposition, have equivalent effects on aggregate demand. Among the reasons for a deviation from the equivalence is the possibility that the government and the private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396483
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Asset Prices and Time-Varying Risk
International Monetary Fund - 1988
time-varying risk. Some work by Abel provided us with the insights needed to produce such formulas. This paper gives a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396175
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Model Uncertainty. Learning, and the Gains from Coordination
International Monetary Fund - 1988
The paper considers gains from international economic policy coordination when there is uncertainty concerning the functioning of the world economy, but also learning about the “true” model on the part of policymakers. The paper reports estimates of plausible alternative versions of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395854
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Transition Economies; How Appropriate is the Size and Scope of Government?
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2001
This paper assesses changes in the size and scope of government in 24 transition economies. Whereas these governments have retrenched in terms of public expenditures in relation to GDP, as well as public employment as a share of population, some indicators suggest that size remains high (e.g.,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826413