Understanding the Effects of Government Spending on Consumption / Jordi Galí, J. David López-Salido, Javier Vallés.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Galí, Jordi.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

López-Salido, J. David.

Vallés, Javier.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w11578.

NBER working paper series no. w11578

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2005.

Summary:

Recent evidence suggests that consumption rises in response to an increase in government spending. That finding cannot be easily reconciled with existing optimizing business cycle models. We extend the standard new Keynesian model to allow for the presence of rule-of-thumb consumers. We show how the interaction of the latter with sticky prices and deficit financing can account for the existing evidence on the effects of government spending.

Notes:

Print version record

August 2005.