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Financialization is a process whereby financial markets, financial institutions and financial elites gain greater influence over economic policy and economic outcomes. Financialization transforms the functioning of economic system at both the macro and micro levels. Its principal impacts are to...
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Finanzialisierung ist ein Prozess, in dessen Verlauf Finanzmärkte, -institutionen und -eliten zunehmend Einfluss auf Wirtschaftspolitik und ökonomische Ergebnisse gewinnen. Finanzialisierung transformiert die Funktionsweise des ökonomischen Systems sowohl auf der Makro- als auch auf der...
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Although there is academic research confirming a short-run negative correlation between unemployment and inflation, the majority of studies conclude there is no long-run Phillips Curve. Deploying Phillips methodology and applying it to twelve years of US quarterly data, this study concludes...
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This paper documents the systematic response of postwar U.S. fiscal policy to fiscal imbalances and the business cycle 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...
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Recent research and events have brought fiscal policy back into the spotlight. Fiscal Taylor rules and error correction models have represented two different ways of quantifying the feedbacks from fiscal and economic conditions to fiscal policy decisions. This paper synthesizes these two ideas,...
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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...
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This article springs from two concurrent phenomena. First, U.S. federal deficit spending projections indicate that any feasible deficit reduction plan will require substantial additional revenue. Second, the U.S. system for taxing foreign-source income is so badly flawed that if the United...
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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
This paper documents the systematic response of postwar U.S. fiscal policy to fiscal imbalances and the business cycle 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152534
Recent research and events have brought fiscal policy back into the spotlight. Fiscal Taylor rules and error correction models have represented two different ways of quantifying the feedbacks from fiscal and economic conditions to fiscal policy decisions. This paper synthesizes these two ideas,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003827185