A Model-Based Evaluation of the Debate on the Size of the Tax Multiplier

Martín Uribe (), Schmitt-Grohé, Stephanie and Ryan Chahrour
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe

No 7930, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: The SVAR and narrative approaches to estimating tax multipliers deliver significantly different results. The former yields multipliers of about 1 percent, whereas the latter produces much larger multipliers of about 3 percent. The SVAR and narrative approaches differ along two important dimensions: the identification scheme and the reduced-form transmission mechanism. This paper uses a DSGE-model approach to evaluate the hypothesis that the different tax multipliers stemming from the SVAR and narrative approaches are due to differences in the assumed reduced-form transmission mechanisms. The main finding of the paper is that in the context of the DSGE model employed this hypothesis is rejected. Instead, the observed differences in estimated multipliers are due either to both models failing to identify the same tax shock, or to small-sample uncertainty.

Keywords: Dsge model; Narrative approach; Tax multiplier; Var tax shocks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 E62 H30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-07
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