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Fiscal foresight and information flows /

News - or foresight - about future economic fundamentals can create rational expectations equilibria with non-fundamental representations that pose substantial challenges to econometric efforts to recover the structural shocks to which economic agents react. Using tax policies as a leading example o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Leeper, Eric Michael (Autor), Walker, Todd B. (Todd Bruce) (Autor), Yang, Shu-Chun Susan, 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, ©2012.
Colección:IMF working paper ; WP/12/153.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Analytical Example; A. The Econometrics of Foresight; B. Generalizations; III. Quantitative Importance of Foresight; A. Modeling Information Flows; B. Model Descriptions; C. Information Flows and Estimation Bias; IV. Solving the Problem; A. An Organizing Principle; B. Lines of Attack; 1. The Narrative Approach; 2. Conditioning on Asset Prices; 3. Direct Estimation of DSGE Model; V. Concluding Remarks; References; Tables; 1. Information Flow Processes; 2. Output Multipliers for a Labor Tax Change; Figures; 1. Responses of Capital to Tax Increase.
  • AppendicesI. Simulations Details; II. Testing Economic Theory; III. Municipal Bonds and Fiscal Foresight: Additional Results; IV. Assessing the Ex-Ante Approach.