Fiscal policy

In economics and political science, fiscal policy is the use of government revenue collection (taxes or tax cuts) and expenditure to influence a country's economy. The use of government revenue expenditures to influence macroeconomic variables developed in reaction to the Great Depression of the 1930s, when the previous laissez-faire approach to economic management became unworkable. Fiscal policy is based on the theories of the British economist John Maynard Keynes, whose Keynesian economics theorised that government changes in the levels of taxation and government spending influence aggregate demand and the level of economic activity. Fiscal and monetary policy are the key strategies used by a country's government and central bank to advance its economic objectives. The combination of these policies enables these authorities to target inflation (which is considered "healthy" at the level in the range 2%–3%) and to increase employment. Additionally, it is designed to try to keep GDP

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Deep Habits, Price Rigidities and the Consumption Response to Government Spending

This paper inspects the 'deep' habits mechanism originally used by Ravn, Schmitt-Grohé and Uribe (2006) to generate the positive comovement of public and private consumption observed in many VAR studies. In their set-up, the price-elasticity of demand is pro-cyclical and it is optimal for the firm to lower the mark-up while expanding production after the fiscal shock, raising the demand for labor and the real wage. Consequently, agents substitute consumption for leisure and overcome the negative wealth effect of the fiscal expansion. Here, we show that increasing price stickiness reduces the impact of the fiscal shock on the real wage and hinders the rise of consumption. If the degree of price stickiness is high enough, consumption is crowded-out. This is in contrast to the role of price rigidities in the standard New Keynesian model where they weaken the crowding-out of consumption.

Ghent University Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Working Paper 2010/6412011

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

Christian Pröbsting

This paper studies the effects of fiscal policy on net exports, the terms of trade and expenditure switching. Using data on government spending and consumption taxes for twelve euro area countries over 1996 to 2018, it shows that fiscal austerity shocks improve net exports. This improvement in the trade balance is driven by falling imports while exports do not respond; export and import prices co-move and the terms of trade does not deteriorate in response to an austere shock. The empirical evidence confirms asymmetric expenditure switching, as domestic consumers switch towards domestically produced goods while foreign consumers fail to do so. In a second step, we rationalize these findings in a multi-product small-open DSGE model that features GHH preferences, a non-traded consumption good and pricing to market.

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Monetary-Fiscal Policy Interactions and Commitment Versus Discretion in a Monetary Union

Luisa Lambertini

We consider monetary fiscal policy interactions in a monetary union. If monetary and fiscal authorities have different ideal output and inflation targets, the Nash equilibrium output or inflation or both are beyond the ideal points of all authorities. Leadership of either authority is better. Fiscal discretion entirely negates the advantage of monetary commitment: The optimal monetary rule is equivalent to discretionary leadership of monetary over fiscal policy. Agreement about ideal output and inflation creates a monetary-fiscal symbiosis, yielding the ideal point despite disagreement about the relative weights of the two objectives, for any order of moves, without fiscal co-ordination, and without monetary commitment.

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