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Does Government Spending Crowd In Private Consumption? Theory and Empirical Evidence for the Euro Area / Günter Coenen, Roland Straub.

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Author/Creator:
Coenen, Günter.
Contributor:
Straub, Roland.
International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Financial Systems Department.
Series:
IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2005/159
IMF Working Papers
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Consumption (Economics)--European Union countries--Econometric models.
Consumption (Economics).
Fiscal policy--European Union countries--Econometric models.
Fiscal policy.
Crowding out (Economics)--European Union countries--Econometric models.
Crowding out (Economics).
European Union countries--Appropriations and expenditures--Econometric models.
European Union countries.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (37 p.)
Place of Publication:
Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2005.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
In this paper, we revisit the effects of government spending shocks on private consumption within an estimated New-Keynesian DSGE model of the euro area featuring non-Ricardian households. Employing Bayesian inference methods, we show that the presence of non- Ricardian households is in general conducive to raising the level of consumption in response to government spending shocks when compared with the benchmark specification without non-Ricardian households. However, we find that there is only a fairly small chance that government spending shocks crowd in consumption, mainly because the estimated share of non-Ricardian households is relatively low, but also because of the large negative wealth effect induced by the highly persistent nature of government spending shocks.
Contents:
""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. THE MODEL""; ""III. BAYESIAN ESTIMATION OF THE MODEL""; ""IV. ASSESSING THE ROLE OF NON- RICARDIAN HOUSEHOLDS""; ""V. SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS""; ""VI. CONCLUSIONS""; ""References""
Notes:
"August 2005."
Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9786613828262
9781462370009
1462370004
9781452717876
1452717877
9781283515818
1283515814
9781451907148
1451907141

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