"This paper explores the implications of economic and political inequality for the business cycle comovement of government purchases. We set up and compute a heterogeneous-agent neoclassical growth model, where households value government purchases which are financed by income taxes. A key...

How should taxes, government expenditures, the primary and fiscal surpluses and government liabilities be set over the business cycle? We assume that the government chooses expenditures and taxes to maximize the utility of a representative household, utility is increasing in government...

Die Bundesregierung plant ab 1. Juli 1991 zur Finanzierung des Golfkriegs, zur Reduzierung des einheitsbedingten hohen Staatsdefizits bzw. auch zur Finanzierung zusätzlicher Ausgaben in den neuen Bundesländern sowie zur Senkung der zusätzlichen Budgetbelastung durch die Wirtschaftshilfen für...