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Investment tax incentives and their big time-to-build fiscal multiplier

This paper studies how investment tax incentives stimulate output in a medium-scale DSGE model, which allows for a variety of fiscal financing mechanisms. We find that the horizon following a positive shock in investment tax incentives is crucial. The shock is highly expansionary in the long run, with the relevant fiscal multiplier substantially exceeding 1, but this effect only becomes visible after two to three years. Our analysis indicates that a rise in the marginal product of labor and the demand for labor trigger this expansion, which is an effect that partial equilibrium studies ignore. Our analysis also contributes to the time-to-build profile of the fiscal multiplier. The results suggest that investment tax incentives are even more effective when nominal wages adjust faster.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series ; No. WP19/27

Classification
Wirtschaft
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook: General
Fiscal Policy
Subject
private investment incentives
investment tax credit
fiscal multiplier

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Bermperoglou, Dimitrios
Deli, Yota
Kalyvitis, Sarantis
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
University College Dublin, UCD Centre for Economic Research
(where)
Dublin
(when)
2019

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Bermperoglou, Dimitrios
  • Deli, Yota
  • Kalyvitis, Sarantis
  • University College Dublin, UCD Centre for Economic Research

Time of origin

  • 2019

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