【日 時】2020年1月14日(火)10:40 – 12:10
【場 所】早稲田大学 早稲田キャンパス3号館10階第一会議室
【講師】Francesco Zanetti (University of Oxford)
【論題】State Dependence of Fiscal Multipliers: the Source of Fluctuations Matters
【要旨】We develop a general analytic theory of state-dependent fiscal multipliers in a framework featuring interaction between three empirically relevant goods market frictions: idle productive capacity, unsatisfied demand and price rigidity. Our key novel finding is that the source of economic fluctuations determines the cyclicality of fiscal multipliers. Policies that stimulate aggregate demand, such as government spending and consumption tax cuts, have multipliers that are large in demand-driven recessions, but small and possibly negative in supply-driven downturns. On the other hand, policies that boost aggregate supply, such as cuts in taxes on labor income, firms’ payroll and sales, are ineffective in demand-driven recessions, but powerful if the downturn is driven by supply factors. Spending austerity, implemented by a reduction in government consumption, can be the policy with the largest multiplier in severe supply-side recessions and demand-driven booms, provided elasticities of labor demand and supply are sufficiently low. We obtain model-free empirical support for our theoretical predictions using a novel econometric specification that allows to estimate spending and tax cut multipliers in recessionary and expansionary episodes, conditional on those being either demand- or supply-driven.
【言語】英語
【対象】早稲田大学学部生、大学院生、教職員、一般
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【招聘教員】濵野正樹先生
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【共催】早稲田大学スーパーグローバル大学創成支援事業 実証政治経済学拠点
【主催】現代政治経済研究所
所長 清水和巳
幹事 浅古泰史 多湖淳