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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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The Dynamic Effects of Personal and Corporate Income Tax Changes in the United States: Reply to Jentsch and Lunsford

open access: yesThe American Economic Review, 2011
In this reply to a comment by Jentsch and Lunsford, we show that the evidence for economic and statistically significant macroeconomic effects of tax changes in Mertens and Ravn (2013) remains present for a range of asymptotically valid inference methods.

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
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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

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

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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

State Dependent Government Spending Multipliers: Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity and Sources of Business Cycle Fluctuations

open access: yesSocial Science Research Network, 2022
In a New Keynesian model with downward nominal wage rigidity (DNWR), we show that government spending is more effective in stimulating output in a low-inflation recession relative to a high-inflation recession. The government spending multiplier is large
Yoon J. Jo, Sarah Zubairy
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Taxing Challenges of the State: Unveiling the Role of Fiscal and Administrative Capacity in Development

open access: yesCESifo Economic Studies
The growing emphasis on nation-states and their pivotal role in economic development has emerged as a central theme in contemporary economic discourse. This review examines the concept of state capacity as discussed in the economic literature, focusing
Federica Braccioli   +3 more
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Learning by Necessity: Government Demand, Capacity Constraints, and Productivity Growth

open access: yesThe American Economic Review
This paper studies how firms adapt to demand shocks when facing capacity constraints. I show that increases in government purchases raise total factor productivity in quantity units at the production line level.
Ethan Ilzetzki
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The Invisible Hand of the Government: 'Moral Suasion' During the European Sovereign Debt Crisis

open access: yesAmerican Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2016
Using proprietary data on banks’ monthly securities holdings, we show that during the European sovereign debt crisis, domestic banks in fiscally stressed countries were considerably more likely than foreign banks to increase their holdings of domestic ...
S. Ongena, A. Popov, Neeltje van Horen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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