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Fiscal Policy, Interest Rate Spreads, and the Zero Lower Bound
Bredemeier, Christian - 2015
macroeconomic model which reproduces this observation. The model predicts that the fiscal multiplier takes conventional values …
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Fiscal Multipliers and the Labour Market in the Open Economy
Faia, Ester - 2010
Several contributions have recently assessed the size of fiscal multipliers both in RBC models and New Keynesian models. None of the studies considers a model with frictional labour markets which is a crucial element, particularly at times in which much of the fiscal stimulus has been directed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146168
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Regional Consumption Responses and the Aggregate Fiscal Multiplier
Dupor, Bill; Karabarbounis, Marios; Kudlyak, Marianna; … - 2022
responses to an aggregate fiscal multiplier using a multi-region, New Keynesian model with heterogeneous agents, incomplete … markets, and trade linkages. Our model is consistent with the estimated positive local multiplier, a result that distinguishes … multiplier is twice as large as the local multiplier because trade linkages propagate the effect of government spending across …
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Fiscal Policy and the Labour Market : The Effects of Public Sector Employment and Wages
Gomes, Pedro - 2010
I build a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with search and matching frictions and two sectors in order to study the labour market effects of public sector employment and wages. Public sector wages plays an important role in achieving the efficient allocation. High wages induce too...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135824
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Optimal Fiscal Policy with Labor Selection
Chugh, Sanjay K. - 2018
This paper characterizes long-run and short-run optimal fiscal policy in the labor selection framework. In a calibrated non-Ramsey decentralized equilibrium, labor market volatility is inefficient. Keeping fixed the structural parameters, the Ramsey government achieves efficient labor market...
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Can Taxes Stabilize the Economy in the Presence of Consumption Externalities?
Lloyd-Braga, Teresa - 2012
Considering a finance constrained economy, we discuss the stabilization role of variable labour and capital income taxes under a balanced-budget rule in the presence of consumption externalities of the "keeping up with the Joneses" type. We find that sufficiently procyclical labor and/or capital...
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The German Labor Market During the Great Recession : Shocks and Institutions
Gehrke, Britta - 2018
This paper analyzes Germany's unusual labor market experience during the Great Recession. We estimate a general equilibrium model with a detailed labor market block for post-unification Germany. This allows us to disentangle the role of institutions (short-time work, government spending rules)...
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Government Deficit Shocks and Okun's Coefficient Volatility : New Insights on the Austerity Versus Growth Debate
Pham, Binh Thai - 2019
This paper connects two salient economic features: (i) Fiscal shocks have asymmetric effects across business cycle phases (Gechert et al., 2019); (ii) Okun's coefficient is time varying and may be unstable. The intertwined dynamic behavior of fiscal shocks and unemployment-output trade-offs are...
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Counteracting Unemployment in Crises : Non-Linear Effects of Short-Time Work Policy
Gehrke, Britta - 2018
Short-time work is a labor market policy that subsidizes working time reductions among firms in financial difficulty to prevent layoffs. Many OECD countries have used this policy in the Great Recession. This paper shows that the effects of short-time work are strongly time dependent and...
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Does Short-Time Work Save Jobs? A Business Cycle Analysis
Balleer, Almut - 2013
In the Great Recession most OECD countries used short-time work (publicly subsidized working time reductions) to counteract a steep increase in unemployment. We show that short-time work can actually save jobs. However, there is an important distinction to be made: While the rule-based component...
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