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change. Consumers also oppose financing policies to fight climate change via public debt, implying higher costs for future …
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The empirical effectiveness of economic policies that operate theoretically through similar channels differs substantially. We document this fact by comparing an easy-to-grasp expectations-based policy, unconventional fiscal policy, with a policy whose implications are harder to understand by...
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change. Consumers also oppose financing policies to fight climate change via public debt, implying higher costs for future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186775
The empirical effectiveness of economic policies that operate theoretically through similar channels differs substantially. We document this fact by comparing an easy-to-grasp expectations-based policy, unconventional fiscal policy, with a policy whose implications are harder to understand by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012057290
(ZLB) on the nominal interest rate. Fiscal stabilization via higher government debt is frequently recommended as a policy … with a debtfinanced fiscal expansion and show that even in a low real interest rate environment, higher debt doesn …'t necessarily raise the real interest rate. The effect of the expansion is non-monotonic: Increasing debt raises the natural real …
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(ZLB) on the nominal interest rate. Fiscal stabilization via higher government debt is frequently recommended as a policy … with a debtfinanced fiscal expansion and show that even in a low real interest rate environment, higher debt doesn …’t necessarily raise the real interest rate. The effect of the expansion is non-monotonic: Increasing debt raises the natural real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301130
Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households’ expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in the Nielsen Homescan panel with different...
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Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households' expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in the Nielsen Homescan panel with different combinations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270033
Prospective economic developments depend on the behavior of consumer spending. A key question is whether private expenditures recover once social distancing restrictions are lifted or whether the COVID-19 crisis has a sustained impact on consumer confidence, preferences, and, hence, spending....
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Prospective economic developments depend on the behavior of consumer spending. A key question is whether private expenditures recover once social distancing restrictions are lifted or whether the COVID-19 crisis has a sustained impact on consumer confidence, preferences, and, hence, spending....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012797254