Hicks in HANK: Fiscal Responses to an Energy Shock

Christian Bayer, Alexander Kriwoluzky, Gernot Müller and Fabian Seyrich ()

CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series from University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany

Abstract: The distributional and disruptive effects of energy supply shocks are potentially large. We study the effectiveness of alternative fiscal responses in a two-country HANK model that we calibrate to the euro area. Energy subsidies can stabilize the domestic economy, but are fiscally costly and generate adverse spillovers to the rest of the monetary union: What the subsidizing country gains, the other countries lose. Transfers based on historical energy consumption in the form of a Hicks/Slutsky compensation are less effective domestically as subsidies but do not harm economic activity abroad. In addition, transfers increase welfare at Home while subsidies reduce welfare.

Keywords: Energy crisis; Subsidies; Transfers; HANK2; monetary union; spillovers; heterogeneity; inequality; households (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 E64 F45 Q41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51
Date: 2023-11
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