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Housing Demand and Remote Work
Mondragon, John; Wieland, Johannes - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
after controlling for negative spillovers from migration. This cross-sectional estimate combined with the aggregate shift to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210069
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Quantifying the Inflationary Impact of Fiscal Stimulus Under Supply Constraints
Di Giovanni, Julian; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Silva, Álvaro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper builds on Baqaee and Farhi (2022) and di Giovanni et al. (2022) to quantify the contribution of fiscal policy on U.S. inflation over the Dec-2019 to June-2022 period. Model calibrations show that aggregate demand shocks explain roughly two-thirds of total model-based inflation, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537784
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Future Rent-Seeking and Current Public Savings
Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2008
size of this political distortion. In this paper we study the determination of government debt and deficits in a dynamic …, a rent-seeking government over-saves and over-taxes along the equilibrium path relative to a benevolent government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464230
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Choosing Size of Government Under Ambiguity : Infrastructure Spending and Income Taxation
Manski, Charles F. - 2012
Attempting to shed light on the optimal size of government, economists have analyzed planning problems that specify a … choice of a planner who knows the welfare achieved by each policy. This paper examines choice of size of government by a … a wide range of spending levels--thus, a society can rationalize having a small or large government. I conclude that to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460456
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Credit When You Need It
Collier, Benjamin L.; Hartley, Daniel A.; Keys, Benjamin J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We estimate the causal effect of emergency credit on households' finances after a negative shock. To do so, we link …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056171
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Terrorism and Political Attitudes : Evidence from European Social Surveys
Peri, Giovanni; Rees, Daniel I.; Smith, Brock - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
attacks involving at least one fatality on attitudes towards immigrants and government institutions. Comparing within … region that was attacked tend to express more trust in parliament and more satisfaction with the national government in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510541
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Election Fairness and Government Legitimacy in Afghanistan
Berman, Eli - 2014
decreasing electoral misconduct improves multiple survey measures of attitudes toward government, including: (1) whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458715
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Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes : Evidence from India
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2013
This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes, both for citizens of their religious group and for the population as a whole. To allow for politician identity to be correlated with constituency level voter preferences or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459437
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The Macroeconomics of a Pandemic : A Minimalist Model
Céspedes, Luis Felipe - 2020
We build a minimalist model of the macroeconomics of a pandemic, with two essential components. The first is productivity-related: if the virus forces firms to shed labor beyond a certain threshold, productivity suffers. The second component is a credit market imperfection: because lenders...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481811
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Fiscal Federalism and the Budget Impacts of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid Expansion
Gruber, Jonathan - 2020
effects described as a key barrier. We use an event-study approach to analyze state budget data from 2010-2018 and assess the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482043