This paper examines issues related to the estimation of the government spending multiplier (GSM) in a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium context. We stress a potential source of bias in the GSM arising from the combination of Edgeworth complementarity/substitutability between private...

Hand-to-mouth consumers and Edgeworth complementarity between private consumption and public expenditures are two competing mechanisms that were put forward by the literature to investigate the effects of government spending. Using Bayesian prior and posterior analysis and several econometric...

This paper is a quantitative investigation into the characteristics of the Laffer curve in a neoclassical growth model with incomplete markets and heterogeneous, liquidity-constrained agents. We show that the shape of the Laffer curves related to taxes on labor, capital and consumption...

This article addresses the existence of a wide range of estimated government spending multipliers in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model of the euro area. Our estimation results and counterfactual exercises provide evidence that omitting the interactions of key ingredients at the...

L’impact quantitatif et dynamique de la TVA sociale, i.e. une réforme fiscale consistant à substituer de la TVA aux charges patronales, est évaluée à l’aide de deux modèles d’équilibre général dynamique. Le premier est un modèle walrasien sans autres distorsions que des taxes sur...

Cet article étudie les effets dynamiques des chocs de désinflation sur un ensemble de variables réelles et nominales de la zone Euro. A l’aide d’un modèle VAR structurel, nous identifions le choc de désinflation comme étant le seul choc ayant un effet permanent sur l’inflation à...