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Unconventional Fiscal Policy at the Zero Bound

Correia, Maria Isabel Horta - 2011

When the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates binds, monetary policy cannot provide appropriate stimulus. We show that in the standard New Keynesian model, tax policy can deliver such stimulus at no cost and in a time-consistent manner. There is no need to use inefficient policies such as...

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Fiscal Devaluations

Farhi, Emmanuel - 2011

We show that even when the exchange rate cannot be devalued, a small set of conventional fiscal instruments can robustly replicate the real allocations attained under a nominal exchange rate devaluation in a dynamic New Keynesian open economy environment. We perform the analysis under...

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The Output Effect of Fiscal Consolidations

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2012

The present paper argues that the correct experiment to evaluate the effects of a fiscal adjustment is the simulation of fiscal plans rather than of individual fiscal shocks. The simulation of the fiscal plans adopted by 16 OECD countries over a 30-year period supports the hypothesis that the...

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Investment in Energy Infrastructure and the Tax Code

Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2014

Federal tax policy provides a broad array of incentives for energy investment. I review those policies and construct estimates of marginal effective tax rates for different energy capital investments as of 2007. Effective tax rates vary widely across investment classes. I then consider...

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Tax Policies for Low-Carbon Technologies

Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2010

key policy goals with subsidies as opposed to using taxes to raise the price of pollution-related activities. In …

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How Large are the Effects of Tax Changes?

Favero, Carlo A. - 2009

We use the time series of shifts in U.S. Federal tax liabilities constructed by Romer and Romer to estimate tax multipliers. Differently from the single-equation approach adopted by Romer and Romer, our estimation strategy (a Var that includes output, government spending and revenues, inflation...

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Federal Taxation and the Supply of State Debt

Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2007

This paper presents a model of debt finance at the sub-national level from which municipal bond supply equations are derived. Federal tax considerations are shown to be important determinants of the price entering the bond supply equation. Using data on 40 state governments over a seven year...

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Federal Tax Policy Towards Energy

Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2007

On Aug. 8, 2005, President Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (PL 109-58). This was the first major piece of energy legislation enacted since 1992 following five years of Congressional efforts to pass energy legislation. Among other things, the law contains tax incentives worth over $14...

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The Macroeconomics of Border Taxes

Barbiero, Omar - 2018

We analyze the dynamic macroeconomic effects of border adjustment taxes, both when they are a feature of corporate tax … reform (C-BAT) and for the case of value added taxes (VAT). Our analysis arrives at the following main conclusions. First, C …. Lastly, border taxes increase government revenues in periods of trade deficit, however, given the net foreign asset position …

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What Do We Know About the Effects of Austerity?

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2018

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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