Aggregate Instability and the Sectoral Composition of Fiscal Policy
| Autor: | Abad, Nicolas |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Centre de Recherche en Economie Appliquée à la Mondialisation (CREAM), Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire Homme et Société (IRIHS), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU), Abad, Nicolas |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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two-sector model
balanced-budget rule JEL: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics/E.E6 - Macroeconomic Policy Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance and General Outlook/E.E6.E62 - Fiscal Policy JEL: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics/E.E3 - Prices Business Fluctuations and Cycles/E.E3.E32 - Business Fluctuations • Cycles [QFIN]Quantitative Finance [q-fin] Expectation-driven fluctuations local indeterminacy [QFIN] Quantitative Finance [q-fin] fiscal policy JEL: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods/C.C6 - Mathematical Methods • Programming Models • Mathematical and Simulation Modeling/C.C6.C62 - Existence and Stability Conditions of Equilibrium |
| Popis: | The aim of this papier is to investigate how sector-specific tax rates are destabilizing and lead to expectation-driven fluctuations through the presence of local indeterminacy. We explore this issue within a two-sector model where firms produce either a pure consumption good or a pure investment good and pay an output tax which varies with the tax base. We find that hte composition of sectoral taxes matter since expectation-driven fluctuations requires the presence of a tax in the investment good sector whose cyclicality depends on the tax in the consumption good sector and the size of the elasticity of substitution. In particular, local indeterminacy appears either if the tax rate in the investment good sector is countercyclical with a procyclical tax in the consumption good sector, or if the tax in the investment good sector is procyclical with a tax that is countercyclical enough in the consumption good sector. We also show that this destabilizing composition depends on the configuration of factor intensity ranking. |
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