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An estimated fiscal Taylor rule for the postwar United States
Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2011
using a multivariate Fiscal Taylor Rule. Adjustments to taxes and purchases both account for a large portion of the fiscal … response to debt, while authorities seem reluctant to adjust transfers. As expected, taxes are highly procyclical; purchases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274430
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Fiscal stimulus and distortionary taxation
Drautzburg, Thorsten; Uhlig, Harald - 2011
We quantify the fiscal multipliers in response to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. We extend the benchmark Smets-Wouters (Smets and Wouters, 2007) New Keynesian model, allowing for credit-constrained households, the zero lower bound, government capital and distortionary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304767
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Automatic stabilizers and economic crisis : US vs. Europe
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2009
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an automatic stabilizer in the current economic crisis. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38 per cent of a proportional income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922975
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An estimated fiscal Taylor rule for the postwar United States
Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2011
using a multivariate Fiscal Taylor Rule. Adjustments to taxes and purchases both account for a large portion of the fiscal … response to debt, while authorities seem reluctant to adjust transfers. As expected, taxes are highly procyclical; purchases … ; fiscal policy ; taxes ; spending ; transfer payments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152534
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Spillovers from tax shocks to the euro area
Mierzwa, Sascha - 2021 - This version: 07 September 2021
I study the spill-over effects of legislated discretionary tax changes in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom to 11 Eurozone countries for the period 1980Q1-2018Q4 employing Local Projections (Jordà, 2005). In general, I find spillovers from US tax legislation to have the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012649097
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Legislative tax announcements and GDP : evidence from the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom
Hayo, Bernd; Mierzwa, Sascha - 2021 - This version: 08 October 2021
We study the announcement effect of legislated tax changes on GDP in the US, Germany, and the UK. Using, as the shock of interest, narratively identified information (Romer & Romer, 2009) about future tax changes at the quarter of their introduction to the legislative body, we analyse the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012649099
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Fiscal stimulus and distortionary taxation
Drautzburg, Thorsten; Uhlig, Harald - 2011 - This revision: May 30, 2011
We quantify the fiscal multipliers in response to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. We extend the benchmark Smets-Wouters (Smets and Wouters, 2007) New Keynesian model, allowing for credit-constrained households, the zero lower bound, government capital and distortionary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009129765
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Household Income Volatility and Tax Policy : Helping More and Hurting Less, Testimony Before the U.S. Joint Economic Committee
Batchelder, Lily L. - 2010
payments so that a larger share of a family’s income is due in taxes in its higher-income years, and smaller share in its lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014195419
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Legislative Tax Announcements and GDP : Evidence from the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom
Hayo, Bernd; Mierzwa, Sascha - 2022
We study the announcement effect of legislated tax changes on GDP in the US, Germany, and the UK. Using, as the shock of interest, narratively identified information (Romer & Romer, 2009) about future tax changes at the quarter of their introduction to the legislative body, we analyse the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014078421
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Inflation Past, Present and Future : Fiscal Shocks, Fed Response, and Fiscal Limits
Cochrane, John H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Our current inflation stemmed from a fiscal shock. The Fed is slow to react. Why? Will the Fed's slow reaction spur … more inflation? I write a simple model that encompasses the Fed's mild projections and its slow reaction, and traditional … views that inflation will surge without swift rate rises. The key question is whether expectations are forward looking or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210124