蝌蚪网 Journal:
Economic Policy
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Quantitative Effects of Fiscal Foresight
蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy
(pp. 115–44)
Abstract
Legislative and implementation lags imply that substantial time evolves between when news arrives about fiscal changes and when the changes actually take place—time when households and firms can adjust their behavior. We identify two types of fiscal news—government spending using the Survey of Professional Forecasters and taxes using the municipal bond market. The main contribution of the paper is a mapping from reduced-form estimates of news into a DSGE framework. We find that news about fiscal policy is a time-varying process and show that ignoring the time variation can have important consequences in a conventional macroeconomic model. (JEL E12, E62, H20, H30, H62)Citation
Leeper, Eric M., Alexander W. Richter, and Todd B. Walker. 2012. "Quantitative Effects of Fiscal Foresight." 蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy 4 (2): 115–44. DOI: 10.1257/pol.4.2.115Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- E12 General Aggregative Models: Keynes; Keynesian; Post-Keynesian
- E62 Fiscal Policy
- H20 Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General
- H30 Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: General
- H62 National Deficit; Surplus