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Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2021

Generational policy is a fundamental aspect of a nation's fiscal affairs. The policy involves redistributing resources across generations and allocating to particular generations the burden of paying the government's bills. This chapter of the second edition of The Handbook of Public Economics...

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The Impact on Consumption and Saving of Current and Future Fiscal Policies

Carman, Katherine Grace; Gokhale, Jagadeesh; Kotlikoff, … - 2021

alternative fiscal policies on current consumption and saving. Studies to date have examined the response of current consumption … consumption smoothing is actually feasible. ESPlanner's saving and life insurance recommendations generate the smoothest possible … survival-state contingent lifetime consumption path for the household without putting it into debt. Such consumption smoothing …

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Measuring Aspects of Fiscal and Financial Policy

Buiter, Willem H. - 2010

The paper develops a forward-looking comprehensive accounting framework for the public sector.By integrating the public sector budget constraint forward in time the government's present value budget constraint (PVBC) is obtained. In addition to the familiar financial assets and liabilities,...

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The Roles of Monetary, Financial and Fiscal Policy with Rational Expectations

Buiter, Willem H. - 2021

The setup of the paper is as follows: Section I presents a fairly standard, small deterministic macromodel with a number of classical features. All markets clear instantaneously, there is no money illusion, and perfect foresight rules. The effects of monetary, financial, and fiscal policies in...

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Structural and Stabilization Aspects of Fiscal and Financial Policy in the Dependent Economy

Buiter, Willem H. - 2021

exchange rate, the sectoral allocation of production, the level and composition of private consumption, the current account (in …

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Monetary and Fiscal Policy with Flexible Exchange Rates

Branson, William H.; Buiter, Willem H. - 2021

If price decisions are taken neither continuously nor in perfect synchronization, the process of adjustment of all prices to a new nominal level will imply temporary movements in relative prices. It might then well be that, to avoid these movements in relative prices, each price setter will want...

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Deflation : Prevention and Cure

Buiter, Willem H. - 2022

consumption from the future to the present, by tilting the intertemporal terms of trade. An example is a cut in VAT today coupled …

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The Role of Economic Policy after the New Classical Macroeconomics

Buiter, Willem H. - 2012

The paper considers the implications of the rational expectations - New Classical Macroeconomics revolution for the "rules versus discretion" debate. The following issues are covered 1) The ineffectiveness of anticipated stabilization policy, 2) Non-causal models and rational expectations, 3)...

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Game Over : Simulating Unsustainable Fiscal Policy

Evans, Richard W. - 2014

Fiscal sustainability is one of the most pressing policy issues of our time. Yet it remains difficult to quantify. Official debt is plagued with a number of measurement difficulties since its measurement reflects the choice of words, not policies. And forming the fiscal gap-the imbalance in the...

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Russia's Fiscal Gap

Goryunov, Eugene - 2013

Every country faces what economists call an intertemporal (across time) budget constraint, which requires that its government's future expenditures, including the servicing of its outstanding official debt, be covered by its government's future receipts when measured in present value. The...

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