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Does Nominal Wage Stickiness Affect Fiscal Multiplier in a Two-Agent New Keynesian Model? 名义工资粘性会影响双代理新凯恩斯主义模型中的财政乘数吗?
Pub Date : 2024-08-19 DOI: 10.1515/bejm-2023-0213
Daisuke Ida, Mitsuhiro Okano
This study examines the effect of nominal wage stickiness on the fiscal multiplier in a two-agent new Keynesian model. We demonstrate that in the case of sticky nominal wages, an increased share of liquidity-constrained (LC) consumers decreases the money-financed (MF) fiscal multiplier. Our model shows that the fiscal multiplier under an MF regime outperforms that under a debt-financed (DF) regime. Under empirically plausible calibration, the benchmark model indicates that the MF government-spending multiplier is 1.5–3.0, whereas the DF multiplier is 0.8–1.5. We also find that an increased share of LC consumers magnifies the tax-cut multiplier in the cases of MF and DF regimes despite nominal wage stickiness.
本研究探讨了双代理新凯恩斯主义模型中名义工资粘性对财政乘数的影响。我们证明,在名义工资具有粘性的情况下,流动性受限(LC)消费者比例的增加会降低货币融资(MF)财政乘数。我们的模型表明,MF 体制下的财政乘数优于债务融资(DF)体制下的财政乘数。在经验上合理的校准下,基准模型显示货币基金型政府支出乘数为 1.5-3.0,而债务融资型乘数为 0.8-1.5。我们还发现,尽管名义工资具有粘性,但在多边基金和直接融资体制下,消费税消费者比例的增加会放大减税乘数。
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Monetary Policy Transmission in Canada – A High Frequency Identification Approach 加拿大的货币政策传导--高频识别法
Pub Date : 2024-08-02 DOI: 10.1515/bejm-2023-0212
Matt Soosalu
I study the effects of monetary policy shocks in Canada on economic and financial variables. With a narrow window around a policy announcement, I create a new set of intraday level, high-frequency monetary policy surprises using the three-month Canadian Bankers’ acceptance rate futures. I use this measure to identify monetary policy shocks as an external instrument in a monthly VAR. Following a 25 basis point contractionary policy shock, I find that the decline in output is more powerful and peaks earlier than previous empirical works show, with a peak decline of 0.5 % points after 18 months. Price level declines are similarly more powerful and earlier, reaching a decline of 0.3 % points after 24 months. In addition, increases in the credit and mortgage spreads indicate the presence of a domestic credit channel of monetary policy transmission for Canada. Finally, I show that the surprise measure is robust to information effects.
我研究了加拿大货币政策冲击对经济和金融变量的影响。在政策公布的窄窗口期,我利用三个月期加拿大银行承兑汇票利率期货创建了一组新的日内高频货币政策意外水平。在月度 VAR 中,我使用这一指标将货币政策冲击识别为外部工具。在 25 个基点的紧缩性政策冲击之后,我发现产出的下降比之前的实证研究显示的更为强劲,并且更早达到峰值,在 18 个月后达到 0.5 个百分点的下降峰值。价格水平的下降同样更为强劲,而且更早,在 24 个月后达到 0.3 个百分点。此外,信贷和抵押贷款利差的增加表明加拿大存在货币政策传导的国内信贷渠道。最后,我证明了惊喜测量对信息效应的稳健性。
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Inflation Uncertainty from Firms’ Perspective, Overconfidence and Credibility of Monetary Policy 从企业角度看通货膨胀的不确定性、过度自信和货币政策的可信度
Pub Date : 2024-07-30 DOI: 10.1515/bejm-2023-0161
Fernando Borraz, Anna Orlik, Laura Zacheo
This paper uses survey data to gauge firms’ inflation uncertainty. First, it shows how commonly used proxies of uncertainty, such as ex post squared forecast errors or forecast dispersion differ from measures of actual ex ante inflation uncertainty. Second, this paper documents novel stylized facts: firms’ uncertainty and overconfidence – low ex ante variances compared to ex post (squared) forecast errors – are shown to be relevant for how firms’ form their beliefs about inflation and their inflation forecasts accuracy (firms know what they do not know) and to impact firms’ beliefs about credibility of monetary policy.
本文利用调查数据来衡量企业的通胀不确定性。首先,本文展示了常用的不确定性代用指标(如事后预测误差平方或预测离散度)与事前实际通胀不确定性衡量指标之间的差异。其次,本文记录了新的典型事实:企业的不确定性和过度自信--与事后(平方)预测误差相比,事前方差较低--被证明与企业如何形成其对通货膨胀的信念及其通货膨胀预测的准确性(企业知道他们不知道什么)相关,并影响企业对货币政策可信度的信念。
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Child Labor, Corruption, and Development 童工、腐败与发展
Pub Date : 2024-07-03 DOI: 10.1515/bejm-2024-0045
Toshiki Miyashita, Kohei Okada, Kei Takakura
Employing an overlapping generations model with endogenous education choice and corruption, we investigate how child labor and corruption influence human capital accumulation and development. We show that multiple steady states exist in the economy. One steady state has a high level of human capital, while the other has a low level of human capital. In the steady state with a low level of human capital, child labor and corruption exist, fertility and child mortality rates are high, and the welfare level is low. Conversely, in the steady state with a high level of human capital, child labor and corruption are diminished, fertility and child mortality rates are low, and welfare is high. In addition, we show that it is difficult to steer an economy away from a poverty trap with child labor and corruption because bureaucrats of the current generation are opposed to policy changes, such as the reinforcement of monitoring and penal regulations. However, we highlight the possibility for the government to develop the economy in the poverty trap by implementing an education policy, which is Pareto improving.
我们利用一个具有内生教育选择和腐败的世代重叠模型,研究了童工和腐败如何影响人力资本的积累和发展。我们发现,经济中存在多种稳定状态。一种稳态是高人力资本水平,另一种是低人力资本水平。在人力资本水平低的稳态中,存在童工和腐败,生育率和儿童死亡率高,福利水平低。相反,在人力资本水平高的稳定状态下,童工和腐败现象减少,生育率和儿童死亡率低,福利水平高。此外,我们还表明,由于当代官僚反对政策变革,如加强监督和惩罚条例,因此很难引导一个经济体摆脱童工和腐败的贫困陷阱。然而,我们强调了政府通过实施帕累托改进的教育政策来发展贫困陷阱中的经济的可能性。
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Corporate Tax Rates, Allocative Efficiency, and Aggregate Productivity 公司税率、分配效率和综合生产力
Pub Date : 2024-06-24 DOI: 10.1515/bejm-2023-0138
Marcos Dinerstein, Fausto Patiño Peña
This paper quantifies the impact of effective corporate tax rates on aggregate total factor productivity (TFP). Using Chilean manufacturing data, we document a large dispersion in the effective tax rate faced by firms and a mass of firms facing a 0 percent tax rate. We integrate these findings into a standard monopolistic competition model, where firms are subject to corporate taxation and also face output and capital wedges, which represent all other distortions present in the economy. We find that eliminating corporate tax rates increases TFP between 4 and 11 percent. We consider counterfactual policies in which firms face a uniform flat tax rate and find a monotonically decreasing relationship between the level of the tax rate and TFP.
本文量化了企业实际税率对总体全要素生产率(TFP)的影响。利用智利制造业数据,我们记录了企业面临的实际税率的巨大差异,以及大量企业面临的 0% 税率。我们将这些发现纳入一个标准的垄断竞争模型中,在该模型中,企业不仅要缴纳企业税,还要面对产出和资本楔差,这代表了经济中存在的所有其他扭曲因素。我们发现,取消企业税率会使全要素生产率提高 4% 到 11%。我们考虑了企业面临统一统一税率的反事实政策,发现税率水平与全要素生产率之间存在单调递减关系。
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A DSGE Model with Government-owned Banks 政府拥有银行的 DSGE 模型
Pub Date : 2024-04-09 DOI: 10.1515/bejm-2023-0099
Hamilton Galindo Gil, Alexis Montecinos
How relevant are government-owned banks in the economy, especially during recessions? We study the role of government-owned banks in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model with heterogeneous financial intermediaries, heterogeneous households, and minimum capital requirement constraints. We show that the capitalization of government-owned banks during recessions smooths the effects of a negative shock and helps the economy recover more quickly. However, these stabilizing effects could be partially offset by banks’ inefficiency in transforming one unit of capital into loans. Therefore, ignoring the heterogeneity between private and government-owned banks may lead to misleading assessments and conclusions regarding the effects of economic policies on the macroeconomic and banking variables. This is particularly important for evaluating the effectiveness of macroprudential policies.
国有银行在经济中的相关性有多大,尤其是在经济衰退期间?我们在一个具有异质金融中介、异质家庭和最低资本要求约束的动态随机一般均衡(DSGE)模型中研究了国有银行的作用。我们的研究表明,在经济衰退期间,政府所有银行的资本化可以平滑负面冲击的影响,并帮助经济更快地复苏。然而,银行将一单位资本转化为贷款的低效率可能会部分抵消这些稳定效应。因此,忽视私人银行和政府所有银行之间的异质性可能会导致对经济政策对宏观经济和银行业变量影响的误导性评估和结论。这对于评估宏观审慎政策的有效性尤为重要。
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Government Spending Between Active and Passive Monetary Policy: An Invariance Result 主动与被动货币政策之间的政府支出:不变性结果
Pub Date : 2024-04-02 DOI: 10.1515/bejm-2024-0022
Sebastian Laumer, Collin Philipps
This paper develops a new approach to analyze the relationship between the government spending multiplier and monetary policy. We embed measures of monetary policy activism into a nonlinear SVAR model. Our model allows the central bank to adjust its monetary policy regime in response to the economic conditions that arise after government spending shocks. We find that, regardless of the monetary policy regime at the time of a spending shock, the central bank adjusts its regime quickly and responds actively towards inflation only a few quarters after the shock hits the economy. This rapid response of monetary policy leaves medium-run multipliers ultimately unaffected by whether the initial regime was active or passive. For both initial regimes, our five-year multiplier estimates lie between 1.2 and 1.5. An apparent exception to this result is the zero lower bound period between 2008Q4 and 2015Q4-during which monetary policy kept nominal interest rates at zero. Our multiplier point estimates for that era are consistently larger than unity.
本文开发了一种新方法来分析政府支出乘数与货币政策之间的关系。我们将衡量货币政策积极性的指标嵌入到一个非线性 SVAR 模型中。我们的模型允许中央银行根据政府支出冲击后出现的经济状况调整其货币政策体系。我们发现,无论支出冲击发生时的货币政策体系如何,中央银行都会迅速调整其货币政策体系,并在经济受到冲击后的几个季度内积极应对通货膨胀。货币政策的这种快速反应使得中期乘数最终不受初始制度是主动还是被动的影响。对于两种初始体制,我们的五年乘数估计值都在 1.2 和 1.5 之间。这一结果的一个明显例外是 2008 年第四季度至 2015 年第四季度的零下限期--在此期间,货币政策将名义利率保持在零。我们对这一时期的乘数点估计值一直大于 1。
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Trust in Government in a Changing World: Shocks, Tax Evasion, and Economic Growth 在不断变化的世界中对政府的信任:冲击、逃税和经济增长
Pub Date : 2024-03-04 DOI: 10.1515/bejm-2024-0014
James Alm, Raul A. Barreto
Governments are always dealing with unexpected shocks, like wars, terrorism, financial crises, natural disasters, and the like. A recent prominent example is the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Since early 2020, governments around the world have enacted a range of unprecedented measures in an attempt to protect their citizens, with quite mixed results. This varied record has in turn had dramatic effects on peoples’ perceptions of their government, especially on their trust in government and so on their willingness to obey the many government mandates generated by the pandemic. This willingness to obey government mandates extends well beyond pandemic policies to all other dimensions of government laws and regulations. An important dimension of individual compliance with government mandates is tax evasion. What will be the effects of the pandemic and the associated government policies on post-pandemic tax evasion and economic growth, especially via the effects of government policies on “trust” in the government? In this paper we incorporate both tax evasion and trust in an endogenous growth model in order to examine the short and long run impacts on tax evasion of various shocks – a pandemic shock, a government policies shock, and a tax morale shock (and the resulting impact on trust in government). We then use real data on 11 representative economies to simulate these effects, economies representing developed and developing countries as well as economies representing governments that opted for various policy responses to COVID-19, modelled as a labor productivity shock. We find that varied public policy responses to the pandemic have immediate and persistent impacts on tax evasion in the short and long run, largely via their effects on trust in government. We also find that these evasion impacts vary in important and predictable ways that depend especially on whether government dealt effectively or not with the pandemic. Our methodology is readily adapted to examine the effects of other shocks and their respective policy responses on trust in government, tax evasion, and economic growth.
政府总是要应对意想不到的冲击,如战争、恐怖主义、金融危机、自然灾害等。最近一个突出的例子就是 SARS-CoV-2 大流行。自 2020 年初以来,世界各国政府颁布了一系列史无前例的措施,试图保护本国公民,但结果喜忧参半。这种参差不齐的记录反过来又对人们对政府的看法产生了巨大影响,特别是对他们对政府的信任度产生了影响,从而影响到他们是否愿意服从因这场流行病而产生的许多政府任务。这种服从政府指令的意愿远远超出了大流行病政策的范围,延伸到政府法律法规的所有其他方面。个人遵守政府规定的一个重要方面就是逃税。大流行病和相关的政府政策会对大流行后的逃税和经济增长产生什么影响,尤其是通过政府政策对政府 "信任 "的影响?在本文中,我们将逃税和信任都纳入了一个内生增长模型,以研究各种冲击--大流行病冲击、政府政策冲击和税收士气冲击(以及由此对政府信任的影响)--对逃税的短期和长期影响。然后,我们使用 11 个具有代表性的经济体的真实数据来模拟这些影响,这些经济体代表发达国家和发展中国家,也代表对 COVID-19 (模拟为劳动生产率冲击)选择各种政策应对措施的政府。我们发现,针对大流行病的各种公共政策在短期和长期内都会对逃税行为产生直接和持续的影响,这主要是通过它们对政府信任度的影响来实现的。我们还发现,这些逃税影响以重要且可预测的方式变化,尤其取决于政府是否有效地应对了大流行病。我们的方法很容易调整,以研究其他冲击及其各自的政策应对措施对政府信任、逃税和经济增长的影响。
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Does Uncertainty Matter for the Fiscal Consolidation and Investment Nexus? 不确定性对财政整顿和投资关系是否重要?
Pub Date : 2024-02-29 DOI: 10.1515/bejm-2023-0059
Ioannis Bournakis, Nelson R. Ramírez-Rondán
The aim of this research paper is to investigate whether there are non-linearities in the relationship between fiscal consolidation and investment. To achieve this, we take into account the overall state of the economy, as represented by the level of uncertainty. We analyzed a sample of 27 OECD countries from 1996 to 2019 and identified two different regimes of low and high uncertainty. We found that the relationship between fiscal policy and investment is significantly different in these two regimes. In the low uncertainty regime, fiscal tightening has no significant effect on investment. In contrast, in the high uncertainty regime, fiscal tightening has a negative impact on investment, which is three times larger than in the low uncertainty regime. Our results are robust, and have been confirmed through a range of sensitivity tests.
本研究论文旨在探讨财政整顿与投资之间是否存在非线性关系。为此,我们考虑了以不确定性水平为代表的整体经济状况。我们分析了 1996 年至 2019 年期间 27 个经合组织国家的样本,并确定了低不确定性和高不确定性两种不同的制度。我们发现,在这两种体制下,财政政策与投资之间的关系存在显著差异。在低不确定性体制下,财政紧缩对投资没有显著影响。相反,在高不确定性体制下,财政紧缩对投资有负面影响,其影响是低不确定性体制下的三倍。我们的结果是稳健的,并通过一系列敏感性测试得到了证实。
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Merging Structural and Reduced-Form Models for Forecasting 合并结构模型和还原模型进行预测
Pub Date : 2024-02-15 DOI: 10.1515/bejm-2022-0170
Jaime Martinez-Martin, Richard Morris, Luca Onorante, Fabio Massimo Piersanti
Recent economic crises have posed important challenges for forecasting. Models estimated pre-crisis may perform badly when normal economic relationships have been disrupted. Meanwhile, forecasting, especially in central banks, is increasingly based on a suite of models, following two main approaches: structural (DSGE) and reduced form. The challenge remains to identify which model – or combination of models – is likely to make better forecasts in a changing environment. We explore this issue by assessing the forecasting performance of combinations of a medium-scale DSGE model with standard reduced-form methods applied to the Spanish economy and a reference period that includes both the great recession and the sovereign debt crisis. Our findings suggest that: (i) the mean reverting properties of the DSGE model cause it to underestimate the growth of real variables following the inclusion of crisis episodes in the estimation period; (ii) despite this, reduced-form VARs benefit from the imposition of an economic prior from the structural model; but (iii) pooling information in the form of variables extracted from the structural model with (B)VAR methods does not improve forecast accuracy. By analysing the quantiles of the predictive distributions, we also provide evidence that merging models can help improve the forecast in a context including crisis episodes.
最近的经济危机给预测带来了重大挑战。当正常的经济关系被打破时,危机前估计的模型可能会表现不佳。与此同时,预测工作,尤其是中央银行的预测工作,越来越多地基于一系列模型,主要有两种方法:结构模型(DSGE)和简化模型。在不断变化的环境中,确定哪种模型或模型组合可能做出更好的预测仍然是一项挑战。我们通过评估中等规模 DSGE 模型与标准简化形式方法组合的预测性能来探讨这一问题,该模型适用于西班牙经济和一个包括大衰退和主权债务危机的参照期。我们的研究结果表明(i) DSGE 模型的均值回复特性导致其在估算期纳入危机事件后低估了实际变量的增长;(ii) 尽管如此,简化形式 VAR 仍能从结构模型中施加的经济先验值中获益;但 (iii) 使用(B)VAR 方法汇集从结构模型中提取的变量信息并不能提高预测准确性。通过分析预测分布的数量级,我们还提供了在包括危机事件在内的情况下合并模型有助于改善预测的证据。
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