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Mr. Ricardo's great adventure : estimating fiscal multipliers in a truly intertemporal model /
We estimate tax multipliers in a "Blanchard-Yaari" consumption model where Ricardian equivalence is broken because the private sector discounts the future at a faster rate than the real rate of interest. The model fits U.S. data since 1955 extremely well-entailing a discount wedge of aroun...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Washington, D.C.] :
International Monetary Fund, IMF Institute,
2006.
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| Colección: | IMF working paper ;
WP/06/168. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | We estimate tax multipliers in a "Blanchard-Yaari" consumption model where Ricardian equivalence is broken because the private sector discounts the future at a faster rate than the real rate of interest. The model fits U.S. data since 1955 extremely well-entailing a discount wedge of around 20 percent a year and fiscal multipliers of 0.15-0.4-depending on the permanence of the change in taxes/transfers, and is much superior to one that assumes some consumers are fully Ricardian and others follow simple rules of thumb. The implied high private sector rate of discount has wide implications for policymakers |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (28 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 128351821X 9781283518215 9781451985993 1451985991 |