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Deep habits and the macroeconomic effects of government debt

In this paper, we study the effects of government debt on macroeconomic aggregates in a non-Ricardian framework. We develop a micro-founded framework which combines time-varying markups, endogenous labor supply and overlapping generations based on infinitely-lived families. The main contribution of this paper is to provide a new transmission mechanism of public debt through the countercyclical markup movements induced by external deep habits. We analyze the effects of debt-financed tax cuts. We show that the interest rate rises, entailing higher markups, which imply a fall in employment and consumption. It is particularily noteworthy that, even without capital, a crowding out effect of government debt is obtained in the long run. However, the short-run expansionary effect of debt-financed tax cuts, which would eventually be expected in a non-Ricardian framework, fails to occur. This is due to our flexible-price framework. On the other hand, we show that incorporating sticky prices in our model causes debt-financed tax cuts to have a short-run expansionary effect while preserving the long-run contractionary effect.

ISBN
978-3-86558-655-1
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Discussion Paper Series 1 ; No. 2010,22

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Comparative or Joint Analysis of Fiscal and Monetary Policy; Stabilization; Treasury Policy
Monetary Policy
Thema
Wealth Effects
Fiscal Policy
Public Debt Shock
Deep Habits
Overlapping Generations
Monopolistic Competition
Öffentliche Schulden
Makroökonomischer Einfluss
Crowding out
Steuerpolitik
Vermögenseffekt
Overlapping Generations
Monopolistischer Wettbewerb
Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Aloui, Rym
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Deutsche Bundesbank
(wo)
Frankfurt a. M.
(wann)
2010

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Aloui, Rym
  • Deutsche Bundesbank

Entstanden

  • 2010

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