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Fiscal rules aim at constraining public debt. In Sweden, a combination of procedural and numerical rules was introduced in response to the severe 1991 fiscal crisis. These rules have been effective: public debt has come down. The current fiscal framework does not rule out future fiscal crises,...
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This paper explores the distributional implications of a fiscal devaluation acquired through a shift from labor to consumption taxes in an open-economy Heterogeneous Agents New Keynesian model with incomplete markets and uninsurable income risk. A permanent fiscal devaluation perfectly mimicking...
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The distributional impacts of fiscal policies are instrumental in reducing inequality in countries like the Philippines, where inequality has been persistently high. This paper assesses how equitable various taxes and transfers in the Philippines are by deriving the elasticities of Atkinson and...
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We present new evidence showing that fiscal austerity strengthens support for redistribution, especially for the … relatively well-off. Our theoretical model proposes two mechanisms to explain this heterogeneity in support for redistribution …
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This paper explores the link between default risk and fiscal procyclicality. We show that countries with higher sovereign risk have a more procyclical fiscal expenditure policy, which is driven mostly by transfers. We build a small open economy model with income inequality, social transfers, and...
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Finding a definitive answer to the question of whether fiscal redistribution is harmful or beneficial for regional … economic performance is not straightforward. This paper disentangles the key components of fiscal redistribution in a regional … battery of studies on the mixed evidence concerning the relationship between fiscal redistribution and per capita income. To …
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This paper deals with fiscal policy over the business cycle when international financial markets are imperfect. I document evidence that government expenditure tends to be more procyclical the higher is the borrowing cost for a sovereign. Decomposing government expenditure components shows that...
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We show that the effectiveness of redistribution policy in stimulating the economy and improving welfare is directly … regime counteract the deflationary forces during the recession. Moreover, redistribution produces a Pareto improvement under …
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This paper analyzes the redistributive channel of a money financed fiscal stimulus (MFFS). It shows that the way in which this regime is implemented is crucial to determine its redistributive effects and consequently its effectiveness. In normal times, the most effective regime is a MFFS with no...
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We show that the effectiveness of redistribution policy is tied to how much inflation it generates, and thereby to … effects of the CARES Act in a COVID recession. We find that transfer multipliers are larger, and that moreover, redistribution …
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