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Excess Savings and Twin Deficits : The Transmission of Fiscal Stimulus in Open Economies
Aggarwal, Rishabh; Auclert, Adrien; Rognlie, Matthew; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study the effects of debt-financed fiscal transfers in a general equilibrium, heterogeneous-agent model of the world economy. In the long run, increases in government debt anywhere raise the world interest rate and increase private wealth everywhere. In the short run, a country with a...
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Debt, policy uncertainty and expectations stabilization
Eusepi, Stefano; Preston, Bruce - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697796
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The subjective inflation expectations of households and firms : measurement, determinants, and implications
Weber, Michael; D'Acunto, Francesco; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; … - 2022
Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, the patterns they display, their determinants, and how they shape households' and firms' economic...
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Fiscal and Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Agents
Auclert, Adrien; Rognlie, Matthew; Straub, Ludwig - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
In the past decade, a new paradigm for fiscal and monetary policy analysis has emerged, combining the canonical macro model of income and wealth inequality with the New Keynesian model. These Heterogeneous-Agent New Keynesian ("HANK") models feature new transmission channels and allow for the...
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Completing the monetary union of Europe as mid-term solution of the Euro crisis
Fischer, Justina A. V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015
This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the social and political costs of a GREXIT, but also of a continuing austerity policy. It proposes a reform policy fostering growth in Greece and discusses the role of conditionality....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308548
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A bigger house at the cost of an empty fridge? : the effect of households' indebtedness on their consumption: micro-evidence using Belgian HFCS data
Du Caju, Philip; Périlleux, Guillaume; Rycx, François; … - 2021
This paper investigates the potentially non-linear relation between households' indebtedness and their consumption … between 2010 and 2014 in Belgium, using panel data from the two waves of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey. Unlike … previous studies, we find a negative effect of households' indebtedness on their consumption, even in the absence of negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486606
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Global aging and fiscal policy with international labor mobility : a political economy perspective
Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2009
This paper uses an overlapping generations model with international labor mobility and a politically responsive fiscal policy to examine aging in developed and developing regions. Migrant workers change the political structure composed of young and elderly voters in both labor-receiving and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003845509
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Short-time work and precautionary savings
Dengler, Thomas; Gehrke, Britta - 2021
In the Covid-19 crisis, most OECD countries use short-time work schemes (subsidized working time reductions) to preserve employment relationships. This paper studies whether short-time work can save jobs through stabilizing aggregate demand in recessions. We build a New Keynesian model with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517675
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Regional consumption responses and the aggregate fiscal multiplier
Dupor, Bill; Karabarbounis, Marios; Kudlyak, Marianna; … - 2022
spending on consumer spending. Our consumption data come from household-level retail purchases in the Nielsen scanner data and … local non-durable consumer spending by $0.29 and local auto spending by $0.09. We translate the regional consumption … our incomplete markets model from models with complete markets. At the zero lower bound, the aggregate consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187650
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Spending and Job-Finding Impacts of Expanded Unemployment Benefits : Evidence from Administrative Micro Data
Ganong, Peter; Greig, Fiona E.; Noel, Pascal J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We show that the largest increase in unemployment benefits in U.S. history had large spending impacts and small job-finding impacts. This finding has three implications. First, increased benefits were important for explaining aggregate spending dynamics--but not employment dynamics--during the...
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