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In Search of the Transmission Mechanism of Fiscal Policy

Perotti, Roberto - 2012

Most economists would agree that a hike in the federal funds rate will cause some slowdown in growth and inflation, and that the bulk of the empirical evidence is consistent with this statement. But perfectly reasonable economists can and do disagree even on the basic effects of a shock to...

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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 a fall in the markup. This evidence is robust across alternative empirical methodologies used to identify innovations in government spending (structural VAR vs. narrative...

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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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Time Consistency and Free-Riding in a Monetary Union

Chari, Varadarajan V.; Kehoe, Patrick J. - 2021

We analyze the setting of monetary and nonmonetary policies in monetary unions. We show that in these unions a time inconsistency problem in monetary policy leads to a novel type of free- rider problem in the setting of nonmonetary policies, such as labor market policy, fiscal policy, and bank...

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On the Desirability of Fiscal Constraints in a Monetary Union

Chari, Varadarajan V.; Kehoe, Patrick J. - 2021

The desirability of fiscal constraints in monetary unions depends critically on whether the monetary authority can commit to follow its policies. If it can commit, then debt constraints can only impose costs. If it cannot commit, then fiscal policy has a free-rider problem, and debt constraints...

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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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The Political Resource Curse

Brollo, Fernanda - 2010

politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … features of political candidates at the municipal level. In accordance with the predictions of the theory, we find that larger …

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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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