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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829093203321

Autore

Kumhof Michael

Titolo

Jointly Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy Rules under Borrowing Constraints / / Michael Kumhof, Huixin Bi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-4623-5071-2

1-4518-7431-6

1-4527-2886-0

9786612844737

1-282-84473-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

39 p

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

BiHuixin

Disciplina

336.3

Soggetti

Fiscal policy

Economic policy

Labor

Macroeconomics

Public Finance

Fiscal Policy

Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General

Macroeconomics: Consumption

Saving

Wealth

Demand and Supply of Labor: General

Public finance & taxation

Labour

income economics

Revenue administration

Consumption

Fiscal rules

Labor supply

Revenue

Economics

Labor market

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. The Model -- A. Infinitely-Lived Households -- B. Borrowing-Constrained Households -- C. Firms -- D. Government -- 1. Monetary Policy -- 2. Budget Constraint -- 3. Fiscal Policy -- E. Competitive Equilibrium -- F. Aggregate Welfare -- III. Calibration -- IV. Results -- A. Impulse Responses -- 1. Fiscal Policy Rule Parameters -- 2. Monetary Policy Rule Parameters -- B. Welfare under Different Shocks -- C. Welfare and Volatility -- 1. Welfare and Volatility of Policy Instruments -- 2. Efficiency Frontiers -- 3. Alternative Fiscal Instruments -- 4. Alternative Fiscal Rules -- 5. Comparison with the Canonical Infinite-Horizon Case -- V. Conclusion -- References -- Tables -- 1. Moments of the  Data and the Model -- Figures -- 1. Positive  Technology Shock, Different dtax -- 2. Negative Investment Shock, Different dtax -- 3. Positive Consumption Shock, Different dtax -- 4. Positive Technology Shock, Different dpie -- 5. Positive Technology Shock, Different dpie, No Liquidity-Constrained Agents . -- 6. Positive Technology Shock, Different di -- 7. Welfare - Technology Shock -- 8. Welfare - Investment Shock -- 9. Welfare - Consumption Shock -- 10. Welfare - All Shocks -- 11. Welfare and Policy Instrument Volatility -- 12. Welfare-Fiscal Volatility Efficiency Frontier -- 13. Welfare Comparison across Fiscal Instruments -- 14. 100 Percent Infinitely-Lived Agents - Welfare - 2 Dimensional -- 15. 100 Percent Infinitely-Lived Agents - Welfare - 1 Dimensional.

Sommario/riassunto

We study the welfare properties of an economy where both monetary and fiscal policy follow simple rules, and where a subset of agents is borrowing constrained. The optimized fiscal rule is far more aggressive than automatic stabilizers, and stabilizes the income of borrowingconstrained agents, rather than output. The optimized monetary rule features super-inertia and a very low coefficient on inflation, which minimizes real wage volatility. The welfare gains of optimizing the fiscal rule are far larger than the welfare gains of optimizing the monetary rule. The preferred fiscal instruments are government spending and transfers targeted to borrowing-constrained agents.