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A Behavioral New Keynesian Model

open access: yesThe American Economic Review, 2016
This paper analyzes how bounded rationality affects monetary and fiscal policy via an empirically relevant enrichment of the New Keynesian model.
X. Gabaix
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Spending and Job-Finding Impacts of Expanded Unemployment Benefits: Evidence from Administrative Micro Data

open access: yesThe American Economic Review, 2022
We show that the largest increase in unemployment benefits in US history had large spending impacts and small job-finding impacts. This finding has three implications.
Peter Ganong   +4 more
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What Makes Discretionary Counter-Cyclical Fiscal Policy so Difficult? An Analysis of 32 OECD Countries

open access: yesCESifo Economic Studies, 2023
We examine the stance of fiscal policy for 32 OECD countries from 1986 to 2023 by comparing for each country-year observation the signs of the output gap and the change in the cyclically adjusted budget balance.
J. de Haan, Bram Gootjes
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Dynamic Effects of Personal and Corporate Income Tax Changes in the United States: Comment

open access: yesThe American Economic Review, 2019
Mertens and Ravn (2013) estimate impulse response functions (IRFs) from income tax changes in a structural vector autoregression (SVAR) by using narrative accounts of tax liability changes as proxy variables.
C. Jentsch, Kurt G. Lunsford
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Fiscal Policy, Relative Prices, and Net Exports in a Currency Union

open access: yesAmerican Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2023
The hoped-for silver lining of euro-area austerity programs was to raise external competitiveness and improve current accounts. Using product- and industry-level data for 12 countries over the period 1999–2018, we show that reductions in government ...
Luisa Lambertini, C. Proebsting
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Collateral Framework: Liquidity Premia and Multiple Equilibria

open access: yesSocial Science Research Network, 2023
Central banks normally accept debt of their own governments as collateral in liquidity operations without reservations. This gives rise to a valuable liquidity premium that reduces the cost of government finance.
Yvan Lengwiler, Athanasios Orphanides
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Geographic Cross-Sectional Fiscal Spending Multipliers: What Have We Learned?

open access: yesAmerican Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017
A geographic cross-sectional fiscal spending multiplier measures the effect of an increase in spending in one region of a monetary union. Empirical studies of such multipliers have proliferated.
Gabriel Chodorow-reich
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Forward Guidance without Common Knowledge

open access: yesThe American Economic Review, 2018
How does the economy respond to news about future policies or future fundamentals? Standard practice assumes that agents have common knowledge of such news and face no uncertainty about how others will respond.
G. Angeletos, C. Lian
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Fed for Our Times: A Review Essay on 21st Century Monetary Policy by Ben Bernanke

open access: yesJournal of Economic Literature, 2023
This essay reviews 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19 by Ben Bernanke, a fascinating account of the evolution of the Fed since the 1950s, and a stalwart defense of the status quo: of the Fed’s remit ...
L. Reichlin
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Fiscal Policy and the Government Balance Sheet in China

open access: yesIMF Working Papers, 2023
In this paper, we present the most comprehensive estimates of China’s government balance sheet to date. Based on these estimates, we show how major shifts in fiscal policy over the last two decades have shaped the health of the public sector prior to the
Waikei Lam
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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