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Economic Growth with Constraints on Tax Revenues and Public Debt : Implications for Fiscal Policy and Cross-Country Differences
Aizenman, Joshua - 2007
This paper evaluates optimal public investment and fiscal policy for countries characterized by limited tax and debt capacities. We study a non stochastic CRS endogenous growth model where public expenditure is an input in the production process, in countries where distortions and limited...
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Local determinacy in incomplete-markets models
Hagedorn, Marcus - 2023
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The failed theory of the price level
Hagedorn, Marcus - 2024
The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level (FTPL) is a promise to obtain price level determinacy even if the nominal interest rate is constant. The idea is that a unique current price level ensures that the present value government budget constraint holds. I establish that this idea hinges on the...
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The subjective inflation expectations of households and firms : measurement, determinants, and implications
Weber, Michael; D'Acunto, Francesco; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; … - 2022
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Harnessing Windfall Revenues : Optimal Policies for Resource-Rich Developing Economies
van der Ploeg, Rick - 2009
, investment, and the distribution of funds for consumption, particularly if the windfall is both anticipated and temporary. We … show that the permanent income hypothesis prescription of an ever-lasting increase in consumption financed by borrowing … is large relative to initial foreign debt, is it optimal to build a SWF. The optimal time profile of consumption is …
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Fiscal Policy and Dutch Disease
van der Ploeg, Rick - 2021
In this paper we revisit the Dutch disease paying particular attention to the role of specific factors of production and capital stock dynamics. The main insight is that if the natural resource rich windfall is substantial but not large enough for the country to become a rentier, capital goods...
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Fiscal Divergence and Current Account Imbalances in Europe
Schnabl, Gunther - 2013
Since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods System diverging current account positions in Europe have prevailed. While the Southern and Western European countries have tended to run current account deficits, the current accounts of the Central and Northern European countries, in particular Germany,...
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Saving Alberta's Resource Revenues : Role of Intergenerational and Liquidity Funds
Van Den Bremer, Ton - 2016
We use a welfare-based intertemporal stochastic optimization model and historical data to estimate the size of the optimal intergenerational and liquidity funds and the corresponding resource dividend available to the government of the Canadian province Alberta. To first-order of approximation,...
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Unconventional Fiscal Policy
D'Acunto, Francesco; Hoang, Daniel; Weber, Michael - 2021
Unconventional fiscal policy uses announcements of future increases in consumption taxes to generate inflation … expectations and accelerate consumption expenditure. It is budget neutral and time consistent. We provide preliminary evidence for …
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The Effects of Fiscal Policies When Incomes are Uncertain : a Contradiction to Ricardian Equivalence
Feldstein, Martin S. - 2010
introduction of an unfunded social security program will raise consumption even if all bequests reflect intergenerational altruism … earnings are uncertain, his future bequest is also uncertain and his consumption therefore rises more in response to an …
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