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Record Nr.

UNINA9910953418303321

Autore

Walker Todd

Titolo

Fiscal Foresight and Information Flows / / Todd Walker, Eric Leeper, Susan Yang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012

ISBN

9781475516913

1475516916

9781475558241

1475558244

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (66 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

LeeperEric

YangSusan

Disciplina

332.1

Soggetti

Taxation

Fiscal policy

Information theory in economics

Bonds

Diffusion Processes

Dynamic Quantile Regressions

Dynamic Treatment Effect Models

Econometric analysis

Econometrics & economic statistics

Econometrics

Expenditure

Expenditures, Public

Financial institutions

Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: General

Fiscal Policy

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Income tax

Investment & securities

Investments: Bonds

Labor taxes

Law and legislation

Macroeconomics

Municipal bonds

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General

Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies

Public finance & taxation



Public Finance

Tax Law

Tax law

Tax policy

Taxation & duties law

Taxes

Time-Series Models

Vector autoregression

Welfare & benefit systems

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

Cover; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Analytical Example; A. The Econometrics of Foresight; Figures; 1. Responses of Capital to Tax Increase; B. Generalizations; III. Quantitative Importance of Foresight; A. Modeling Information Flows; B. Model Descriptions; C. Information Flows and Estimation Bias; Tables; 1. Information Flow Processes; IV. Solving the Problem; 2. Output Multipliers for a Labor Tax Change; A. An Organizing Principle; B. Lines of Attack; 1. The Narrative Approach; 2. Conditioning on Asset Prices; 3. Direct Estimation of DSGE Model; V. Concluding Remarks; Appendices

I. Simulations Details II. Testing Economic Theory; III. Municipal Bonds and Fiscal Foresight: Additional Results; IV. Assessing the Ex-Ante Approach; References

Sommario/riassunto

News - or foresight - about future economic fundamentals can create rational expectations equilibria with non-fundamental representations that pose substantial challenges to econometric efforts to recover the structural shocks to which economic agents react. Using tax policies as a leading example of foresight, simple theory makes transparent the economic behavior and information structures that generate non-fundamental equilibria. Econometric analyses that fail to model foresight will obtain biased estimates of output multipliers for taxes; biases are quantitatively important when two canonical theoretical models are taken as data generating processes. Both the nature of equilibria and the inferences about the effects of anticipated tax changes hinge critically on hypothesized information flows. Different methods for extracting or hypothesizing the information flows are discussed and shown to be alternative techniques for resolving a non-uniqueness problem endemic to moving average representations.