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Does Government Spending Crowd in Private Consumption? : Theory and Empirical Evidence for the Euro Area
Coenen, Günter - 2005
In this paper, we revisit the effects of government spending shocks on private consumption within an estimated New-Keynesian DSGE model of the euro area featuring non-Ricardian households. Employing Bayesian inference methods, we show that the presence of non- Ricardian households is in general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401503
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Exploring the output effect of fiscal policy shocks in low income countries
Honda, Jiro; Miyamoto, Hiroaki; Taniguchi, Mina - 2020
What do we know about the output effects of fiscal policy in low income countries (LICs)? There are very few empirical studies on the subject. This paper fills this gap by estimating the output effects of government spending shocks in LICs. Our analysis-based on the local projection method-finds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252736
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Tax reforms and fiscal shock smoothing
Amaglobeli, David; Jaramillo Echeverri, Laura; Karnane, … - 2019
This paper examines the role of tax policy reforms in enhancing fiscal shock smoothing in a panel of 13 OECD economies … magnitude of shock smoothing increases from an average of 2 percent to 3-3 1\2 percent following the reform. The effects are … symmetric-that is, the increase in shock smoothing following a reform expanding the tax base (rate) is similar to the decline in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012021994
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Food price shocks and household consumption in developing countries : the role of fiscal policy
Meyimdjui, Carine; Combes, Jean-Louis - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487299
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The distributional effects of government spending shocks in developing economies
Furceri, Davide; Ge, Jun; Loungani, Prakash; Melina, … - 2018
We construct unanticipated government spending shocks for 103 developing countries from 1990 to 2015 and study their effects on income distribution. We find that unanticipated fiscal consolidations lead to a long-lasting increase in income inequality, while fiscal expansions lower inequality....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011848133
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The (subjective) well-being cost of fiscal policy shocks
Eklou, Kodjovi M.; Fall, Mamour - 2020
Do discretionary spending cuts and tax increases hurt social well-being? To answer this question, we combine subjective well-being data covering over half a million of individuals across 13 European countries, with macroeconomic data on fiscal consolidations. We find that fiscal consolidations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012170083
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Optimal fiscal spending and reserve accumulation policies under volatile aid
Moldovan, Ioana R.; Yang, Shu-Chun S.; Zanna, Luis-Felipe - 2019
This paper assesses the optimal setting of fiscal spending and foreign exchange rate intervention policies in response to volatile foreign aid, in a small open economy model that incorporates typical features of low-income countries. Within a class of policy rules, it jointly considers the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102039
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The fiscal multiplier of public investment : the role of corporate balance sheet
Espinoza, Raphael; Gamboa-Arbelaez, Juliana; Sy, Mouhamadou - 2020
theory (Myers 1977). We also find that the effect of public investment on corporate investment is much weaker for firms that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391930
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Asymmetric Effects of Government Spending : Does the Level of Real Interest Rates Matter?
Choi, Woon Gyu - 2005
This paper empirically explores how fiscal policy (represented by increases in government spending) has asymmetric effects on economic activity at different levels of real interest rates. It suggests that the effect of fiscal policy depends on the level of real rates, since the Ricardian effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400636
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Fundamental Determinants of the Effects of Fiscal Policy
Kumar, Manmohan S. - 2006
We explore the underlying determinants of the macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy and tax and social security reform using the Global Fiscal Model (GFM). We show that the planning horizon of consumers, access to financial markets, and the elasticity of labor supply, as well as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402971