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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464232303321

Autore

Bayoumi Tamim A

Titolo

On impatience and policy effectiveness [[electronic resource] /] / prepared by Tamim Bayoumi and Silvia Sgherri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington D.C.], : International Monetary Fund, 2009

ISBN

1-4623-2147-X

1-4527-4200-6

1-4518-7165-1

9786612842405

1-282-84240-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (30 p.)

Collana

IMF working paper ; ; WP/09/18

Altri autori (Persone)

SgherriSilvia

Soggetti

Fiscal policy

Economic policy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; II. Theoretical Model; III. Empirical Estimates; IV. Analysis and Discussion; V. Conclusions and Policy Implications; References; Tables; 1. United States: Unit Root Tests; 2. United States: Cointegration Tests; 3. United States: Estimates of Unrestricted Model (Eq. 10); 4. United States: Estimates of Restricted Model with Impatient Consumers (Eq. 9); Figures; 1. United States: The Data, 1955-2005; 2. United States: Validity of Model Restrictions over Time; 3. United States: Time Variation in the Discount Wedge

4. United States: Time Variation in the Persistence of Income/Policy Shocks5. United States: Time Variation in Income/Policy Multiplier; 6. United States: Counterfactual Analysis

Sommario/riassunto

An increasing body of evidence suggests that the behavior of the economy has changed in many fundamental ways over the last decades. In particular, greater financial deregulation, larger wealth accumulation, and better policies might have helped lower uncertainty about future income and lengthen private sectors' planning horizon. In an overlapping-generations model, in which individuals discount the



future more rapidly than implied by the market rate of interest, we find indeed evidence of a falling degree of impatience, providing empirical support for this hypothesis. The degree of persistenc