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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788349603321

Autore

Sgherri Silvia

Titolo

On Impatience and Policy Effectiveness / / Silvia Sgherri, Tamim Bayoumi

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 Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

BayoumiTamim

Soggetti

Fiscal policy

Economic policy

Banks and Banking

Macroeconomics

Public Finance

Comparative or Joint Analysis of Fiscal and Monetary Policy

Stabilization

Treasury Policy

Macroeconomics: Consumption

Saving

Wealth

Aggregate Factor Income Distribution

Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions

Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General

Finance

Public finance & taxation

Consumption

Income

Personal income

Real interest rates

Expenditure

National accounts

Financial services

Economics

Interest rates



Expenditures, Public

United States

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 persistence of "windfall" shocks to disposable income also appears to have varied over time. Shifts of this kind are shown to have a key impact on the average marginal propensity to consume and on the size of policy multipliers.