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Interjurisdictional competition with adverse selection

Hernández-Murillo, Rubén - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2012

In this paper we study competition among non-benevolent local governments for mobile firms and evaluate the consequences of imposing alternative regimes of competition. In our model politicians act as regulators that offer incentives in the form of recommended output levels and socially-costly...

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Intergenerational policy and the measurement of tax incidence

Conesa, Juan Carlos; Garriga, Carlos - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2013

Policymakers often use measures of tax incidence (generational accounts) as criteria for policy selection. We use a quantitative model of optimal intergenerational policy to evaluate the ability of the tax incidence metric to capture the identity of recipients and contributors and the magnitudes...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640522

The 2009 recovery act: stimulus at the extensive and intensive labor margins

Dupor, Bill; Mehkari, M. Saif - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2014

This paper (i) estimates the local effects of government stimulus spending on labor market outcomes and (ii) shows how these effects can be obtained from a firm's optimal policy in the presence of costs to hiring workers. We analyze the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery...

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Fiscal Policy Spillovers: Points of Employment to Places of Residence

Dupor, Bill; McCrory, Peter B. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2014

In this paper, we study the effects of interregional spillovers from the government spending component of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the Recovery Act). Using cross-county Census Journey to Work commuting data, we cluster U.S. counties into local labor markets, each of...

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Generational policy and the macroeconomic measurement of tax incidence

Conesa, Juan Carlos; Garriga, Carlos - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2009

In this paper we show that the generational accounting framework used in macroeconomics to measure tax incidence can, in some cases, yield inaccurate measurements of the tax burden across age cohorts. This result is very important for policy evaluation, because it shows that the selection of tax...

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Indirect taxation and the welfare effects of altruism on the optimal fiscal policy

Garriga, Carlos; Sánchez-Losada, Fernando - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2009

links present and future generations in the economy. We show that these altruistic links provide a new role for indirect … channel is not present in economies without altruism, such as the infinite-lived consumer economy or the overlapping … generations economy, where long-run welfare is suboptimal and indirect taxation is irrelevant. …

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Optimal taxation with imperfect competition and aggregate returns to specialization

Coto-Martínez, Javier; Garriga, Carlos; … - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2007

In this paper we explore the proposition that in economies with imperfect competitive markets the optimal capital income tax is negative and the optimal tax on firms profits is confiscatory. We show that if the total factor productivity as well as the measure of firms or varieties are endogenous...

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Optimal fiscal policy in the design of Social Security reforms

Conesa, Juan Carlos; Garriga, Carlos - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2007

The quantitative macroeconomics literature has documented that in the basic Overlapping Generations model a privatization of the social security system, going from a Pay-As-You-Go to a Fully Funded system, generates large long run welfare gains at the cost of substantial welfare losses for...

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Spatial dependence in models of state fiscal policy convergence

Coughlin, Cletus C.; Garrett, Thomas A.; … - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2006

We apply spatial econometric techniques to models of state and local fiscal policy convergence. Total tax revenue and expenditures, as well as broad tax and expenditure categories, of state and local governments in each of the 48 contiguous U.S. states are examined. We extend work by Scully...

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The low-frequency impact of daily monetary policy shocks

Francis, Neville; Ghysels, Eric; Owyang, Michael T. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2011

With rare exception, studies of monetary policy tend to neglect the timing of the innovations to the monetary policy instrument. Models which do take timing seriously are often difficult to compare to standard VAR models of monetary policy because of the differences in the frequency that they...

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