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Optimal Dynamic Taxes
Golosov, Mikhail - 2011
We study optimal labor and savings distortions in a lifecycle model with idiosyncratic shocks. We show a tight …-based expressions for the dynamic optimal distortions. We derive a generalization of a savings distortion for non-separable preferences …
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Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a Liquidity Trap
Eggertsson, Gauti B. - 2012
In previous work (Eggertsson and Woodford, 2003), we characterized the optimal conduct of monetary policy when a real disturbance causes the natural rate of interest to be temporarily negative, so that the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates binds, and showed that commitment to a...
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Seigniorage and Fixed Exchange Rates : An Optimal Inflation Tax Analysis
Fischer, Stanley - 2021
A country that decides to fix its exchange rate thereby gives up control over its own inflation rate and the determination of the revenue received from seigniorage. If the country goes further and uses a foreign money, it loses all seigniorage. This paper uses an optimal inflation tax approach...
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Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy : A Linear Quadratic Approach
Benigno, Pierpaolo; Woodford, Michael - 2021
We propose an integrated treatment of the problems of optimal monetary and fiscal policy, for an economy in which prices are sticky and the only available sources of government revenue are distorting taxes. Our linear-quadratic approach allows us to nest both conventional analyses of optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218299
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Optimal Policies with Strategic Distortions
Krishna, Kala; Thursby, Marie C. - 2021
Recent work in optimal trade policy for imperfectly competitive markets usually identifies the optimal level of an instrument, and when more instruments are allowed, general interpretations have been unavailable, This paper analyzes the jointly optimal levels of a Variety of instruments with...
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Optimal Taxation by the Monetary Authority
Walsh, Carl E. - 2021
Reserve requirements imposed against bank deposits, nominal interest payments on bank reserves (or on base money), and inflation can all be viewed as generating tax effects. Any analysis of optimal monetary policy in a steady-state equilibrium needs to consider the simultaneous choice of all the...
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Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy
Chari, Varadarajan V.; Kehoe, Patrick J. - 2021
We provide an introduction to optimal fiscal and monetary policy using the primal approach to optimal taxation. We use this approach to address how fiscal and monetary policy should be set over the long run and over the business cycle. We find four substantive lessons for policymaking: Capital...
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Precautionary Saving and the Marginal Propensity to Consume Out of Permanent Income
Carroll, Christopher D. - 2010
The budget constraint requires that, eventually, consumption must adjust fully to any permanent shock to income. Intuition suggests that, knowing this, optimizing agents will fully adjust their spending immediately upon experiencing a permanent shock. However, this paper shows that if consumers...
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A Model of Secular Stagnation
Eggertsson, Gauti B. - 2014
oversupply of savings. Other forces that work in the same direction and can both create or exacerbate the problem include a drop …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045296
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Savings and the Terms of Trade Under Borrowing Constraints
Agenor, Pierre-Richard; Aizenman, Joshua - 2021
This paper examines the extent to which permanent terms-of-trade shocks have an asymmetric effect on private savings … in bad states of nature, savings rates will respond asymmetrically to favorable movements in the permanent component of … standard determinants of private savings. The results, based on panel data for non-oil commodity exporters of sub …
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