Understanding the Effects of Government Spending on Consumption

Galí, Jordi, Vallés Liberal, Javier and López-Salido, J David
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: J. David Lopez-Salido and Jordi Galí

No 5212, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Rule-of-thumb consumers; Non-ricardian households; Fiscal multiplier; Government spending; Taylor rules (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 E62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dge, nep-mac and nep-pbe
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