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working relatively few (weekly) hours, for instance, suffer from a spending shock of the type we analyzed: their consumption …
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A shift in taxes or in government spending (a quot;fiscal shockquot;) at some point in time puts a constraint on the path of taxes and spending in the future, since the government intertemporal budget constraint will eventually have to be met. This simple fact is surprisingly overlooked in...
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This paper summarizes the results of a large recent literature on multi year fiscal plans for deficit reduction (austerity). The key results are that deficit reduction policies based upon spending cuts are much less costly in terms of short run output losses than tax based adjustments. On...
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in net taxes has no effect on national saving during large fiscal contractions or expansions. For government consumption …
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This paper shows how the richer frequency and variety of fiscal policy shocks available in an international sample can be analyzed recognizing the heterogeneity that exists across different countries. The main conclusion of our empirical analysis is that the question "what is the fiscal policy...
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Several recent studies suggest that the response of national saving to fiscal policy may be non-linear. In this paper we use two data sets to search for the circumstances in which such non-linear responses may arise: a sample of OECD countries used in previous studies, and sample of developing...
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consumption confirms that fiscal policy changes - both contractions and expansions - can have non-Keynesian effects if they are … sufficiently large and persistent, and suggests that these effects can result not only from changes in public consumption but to … decrease in net taxes (with almost no change in public consumption) was associated with a dramatic fall in private domestic …
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This paper provides evidence on the behavior of public debt managers during fiscal" stabilizations in OECD countries over the last two decades. We find that debt maturity tends to" lengthen the more credible the program, the lower the long-term interest rate and the higher the" volatility of...
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Financial systems are inherently fragile because of the very function which makes them valuable: liquidity transformation. Regulatory reforms can strengthen the financial system and decrease the risk of liquidity crises, but they cannot eliminate it completely. This leaves monetary policy with a...
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