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In Search of the Transmission Mechanism of Fiscal Policy

Perotti, Roberto - 2012

private consumption and the real wage will fall, while some neo-keyenesian models predict the opposite. This paper discusses …

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Political Economics and Macroeconomic Policy

Persson, Torsten; Tabellini, Guido - 2022

This paper surveys the recent literature on the theory of macroeconomic policy. We study the effect of various incentive constraints on the policy making process, such as lack of credibility, political opportunism, political ideology, and divided government. The survey is organized in three...

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The Politics of 1992 : Fiscal Policy and European Integration

Persson, Torsten - 2007

The internal market in Europe will greatly increase the international mobility of resources. How will this affect fiscal policy in different countries? The first part of the paper considers taxation of capital in a two country model, where a democratically chosen government in each country...

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Fiscal Policy, Wealth Effects, and Markups

Monacelli, Tommaso - 2009

We document that variations in government purchases generate a rise in consumption, the real and the product wage, and … effect is linked to the degree of complementarity between consumption and hours. We show that the model is able to match our … the positive wealth effect on labor supply is small and therefore the negative wealth effect on consumption is, somewhat …

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Defense Government Spending is Contractionary, Civilian Government Spending is Expansionary

Perotti, Roberto - 2014

Impulse responses to government spending shocks in Standard Vector Autoregressions (SVARs) typically display "expansionary" features. However, SVARs can be subject to a "non-fundamentalness" problem. "Expectations - Augmented" VARs (EVARs), which use direct measures of forecasts of defense...

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How Do Electoral Rules Shape Party Structures, Government Coalitions, and Economic Policies?

Persson, Torsten; Roland, Gérard; Tabellini, Guido - 2021

We present a theoretical model of a parliamentary democracy, where party structures, government coalitions and fiscal policies are endogenously determined. The model predicts that, relative to proportional elections, majoritarian elections reduce government spending because they reduce party...

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Fiscal Expansions and Fiscal Adjustments in OECD Countries

Alesina, Alberto F.; Perotti, Roberto - 2021

This paper considers budget expansions and adjustments in OECD countries in the last three decades. Our main results are: i) on average fiscal expansions are the results of increases in expenditures, particularly of transfer programs, while contractions are typically due to tax increases; ii)...

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Fiscal Policy and Monetary Integration in Europe

Galí, Jordi; Perotti, Roberto - 2021

A popular view among economists, policymakers, and the media, is that the Maastricht Treaty and then Stability and Growth Pact have significantly impaired the ability of EU governments to conduct a stabilizing fiscal policy and to provide an adequate level of public infrastructure. In this...

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Why is Fiscal Policy Often Procyclical?

Alesina, Alberto F.; Tabellini, Guido - 2021

Many countries, especially developing ones, follow procyclical fiscal polices, namely spending goes up (taxes go down) in booms and spending goes down (taxes go up) in recessions. We provide an explanation for this suboptimal fiscal policy based upon political distortions and incentives for...

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Fiscal Policy, Profits, and Investment

Alesina, Alberto F.; Ardagna, Silvia; Perotti, Roberto; … - 2021

This paper evaluates the effects of fiscal policy on investment using a panel of OECD countries. In particular, we investigate how different types of fiscal policy affect profits and , as a result, investment. We find a sizable negative effect of public spending -- and in particular of its...

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