The paper addresses the classical question how to lead the economy from a recession back to full employment in an open economy. In a recession caused by an adverse demand shock, optimal policies crucially depend on whether the income multiplier related to a policy is bigger than unity. This...

Senior Scholar James K. Galbraith argues the fundamental illusion of viewing the US economy through the free-market prism of deregulation, privatization, and a benevolent government operating mainly through monetary stabilization - the prevailing view among economists over the past three...

The Bank of Canada Global Economy Model (BoC-GEM) is used to examine the effect of various types of discretionary fiscal policies on different regions of the globe. The BoC-GEM is a microfounded dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium global model with six regions, multiple sectors, and...