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public consumption as well as total factor and capital equipment productivity. Our main finding is that an empirically …
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between public consumption and production services. The main theoretical prediction is that forward-looking incumbents, with … productivity of public production services, the weight which households place on public consumption services relative to private … consumption and the time discount rate. Moreover, we find that changes in electoral uncertainty produce the longest lasting …
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This paper evaluates the effects of policy interventions on sectoral labour markets and the aggregate economy in a business cycle model with search and matching frictions. We extend the canonical model by including capital-skill complementarity in production, labour markets with skilled and...
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In this paper we study the link between elections, fiscal policy and aggregate fluctuations. The set-up is a stylized dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model incorporating both technology and political re-election shocks. The later are incorporated via a two-party model with elections. The...
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multipliers above unity if infrastructure spending and rising public debt are financed by consumption, dividend and labour income … taxes and below one for corporate taxes. We also show that except for the consumption tax, the size of the multipliers …
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This paper searches for a general equilibrium model of optimal growth and endogenous fiscal policy with the aim of explaining the interaction between private agents and fiscal authorities in the U.S., West Germany, Japan and the U.K. over the period 1960-1996. Our search is conducted in the...
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This paper studies the aggregate and distributional implications of Markov-perfect taxspending policy in a neoclassical growth model with capitalists and workers. Focusing on the long run, our main findings are: (i) it is optimal for a benevolent government, which cares equally about its...
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NKPC. Specifically our model accounts for nominal inertia in both price and wage setting as well for habits in consumption … present in European consumption. Finally we simulate the effects of monetary policy and find that while the magnitude of the …
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