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This paper first reviews the conceptual case for, and appropriate design of, fiscal policies to address major externalities associated with energy use-global warming, local air pollution, and various side effects (e.g., congestion) from motor vehicles. Techniques for (roughly) estimating the...
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; natural disaster relief expenditure ; narrative approach ; structural vector-autoregressive model …
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-term (one year) after a disaster event - the results we present suggest that the share of public spending on disaster relief, at …
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generations. Market-based solutions, such as private insurance for those exposed to climate-change risk, are strongly opposed …
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We estimate the fiscal multiplier associated with shocks to government spending. We consider increases in government spending in the U.S. states in the wake of natural disasters to capture spending shocks that are both unexpected and unrelated to the preceding state of the economy. We find that...
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This paper analyses the importance of fiscal mechanisms for regional risk sharing and redistribution in Switzerland …
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The argument that policy risk, i.e., uncertainty about monetary and fiscal policy, has been holding back the economic … recovery in the U.S. during the Great Recession has a large popular appeal. We analyze the role of policy risk in explaining … business cycle fluctuations by using an estimated New Keynesian model featuring policy risk as well as uncertainty about …
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The paper examines the monetary-fiscal interactions in a monetary union model with uncertainty due to imperfect central bank transparency. We first show that monetary uncertainty disciplines fiscal policymakers and thereby reduces taxes, average inflation and output distortions. However, as more...
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recessions. First, we show that the consumption risk of short-time work is considerably smaller compared to unemployment using … risk of workers, which mitigates their precautionary savings motive. Using a quantitative model analysis, we show that this …
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This paper quantifies the welfare differences among a monetary union, flexible exchange rates (economic disintegration) and a monetary plus fiscal transfer union (higher economic integration). The vehicle of analysis is a medium-scale New Keynesian DSGE model consisting of two heterogeneous...
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