Does Fiscal Policy Matter? Blinder and Solow Revisited

Roger Farmer and Dmitry Plotnikov
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Dmitry Plotnikov: University Of California, Los Angeles

No 73, 2012 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: This paper uses the old-Keynesian representative agent model developed in previous work by Farmer (2010) to answer two questions: 1) do increased government purchases crowd out private consumption? 2) do increased government purchases reduce unemployment? Farmer compared permanent tax financed expenditure paths and showed that the answer to 1) was yes and the answer to 2) was no. We generalize his result to temporary bond-financed paths of government purchases that are similar to the actual path that occurred during WWII. We find that a temporary increase in government purchases does crowd out private consumption expenditure as in previous work by Farmer. However, in contrast to Farmer's experiment we find that a temporary increase in government purchases can also reduce unemployment.

Date: 2012
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Journal Article: DOES FISCAL POLICY MATTER? BLINDER AND SOLOW REVISITED (2012)
Working Paper: Does Fiscal Policy Matter? Blinder and Solow Revisited (2011)
Working Paper: Does Fiscal Policy Matter? Blinder and Solow Revisited (2010)
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