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Governments often pursue procyclical fiscal policies, even though they reduce voter welfare. Is this because voters actually prefer procyclical policies? The analysis in this paper exploits the first individual-level evidence from an original survey of 12,000 respondents in 8 countries across...
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rate. The new model is within a broader theory that includes risk effectsnormally excluded, SKAT, the Stages of Knowledge … Ahead Theory. We use SKAT to analyse outliers inour experimental results, and indicate some new directions and foci for … ; IMF ; exchange rate regime ; exchange rate volatility ; experiment ; SKAT the Stages of Knowledge Ahead Theory ; monetary …
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We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed economy and an international economy. The main findings are the following. (i) There is clear evidence of a vicious circle in the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and...
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According to the expectations channel, a fiscal consolidation may give rise to less contractionary, or even expansionary effects on consumption, despite a decline in current disposable income. Intuitively, people may accumulate a stock of savings in anticipation of the consolidation and may...
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This paper estimates a New Keynesian model with new and old behavioral elements. Agents in the model exhibit cognitive discounting, or myopia: they discount variables far into the future at higher rates than typically implied in the benchmark model. We investigate the model under different...
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