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Procyclical fiscal policy can be caused by either procyclical government expenditure, countercyclical taxes or both. The majority of models which try to explain procyclical fiscal policy as the result of optimal policy have procyclical government expenditures. This paper develops a model which...
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To explain the fact that government spending and tax policy are procyclical in emerging and developing countries, we develop a model for the joint behavior of optimal tax rates and government spending over the business cycle. Our set-up relies on financial frictions, which have been shown to be...
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order to prevent layoffs and stabilize employment. Many OECD countries have used this policy in the Great Recession, for … efficient as the recession deepens. We disentangle discretionary short-time work from automatic stabilization in German data and … estimate time-varying employment effects using a smooth transition VAR. …
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