Showing 1 - 10 of 3,789
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000537471
This paper finds that debt-financed government spending multipliers vary considerably depending on the location of the debt buyer. In a sample of 33 countries, we find that government spending multipliers are larger when government purchases are financed by issuing debt to foreign investors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011878651
nations. We analyse how gains from lowering import tariffs are distributed within the firm and the corresponding tax (base … insufficient expansion of alternative tax bases (profits, sales, and wages) after a tariff cut. This limits the government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014525777
According to standard economic theory, fiscal policy should be counter-cyclical. In the neoclassical smoothing model of Barro (1979), a government should optimally run surpluses in good times and deficits in bad times. That is the same a government should do, though for different reasons, in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067020
This paper provides a comprehensive empirical assessment of the relation between the cyclicality of fiscal policy, output volatility, and economic growth, using a large cross-section of 88 countries over the period 1960 to 2004. Identification of the effects of (endogenous) cyclical fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316549
and Muir 2007). In particular, she examines the global macroeconomic implications of the expiration of major tax cuts in … that the expiration of previously enacted tax cuts in the United States will impose short-run costs on the U.S. economy … redistribution of wealth linked to a partial reversal of global current account imbalances as U.S. government debt declines. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003727267
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231271
This paper examines the fiscal and monetary policy options available to China as a sovereign currency-issuing nation operating in a dollar standard world. We first summarize a number of issues facing China, including the possibility of slower growth, global imbalances, and a number of domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228185
spending, loans, and credit facilities, refinancing schemes, swap agreement, discount loan window, tax cut on credit, short …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834040
The financial crisis raises demands for fiscal policy interventions. While a fall in aggregate demand is an important consequence of the crisis, it also reflects more underlying structural problems and changes. Hence, appropriate policy designs have to take account of the nature of the crisis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159234