In the present work we investigate how the state of credit markets non-linearly affects the impact of fiscal policies. We estimate a Threshold Vector Autoregression (TVAR) model on U.S quarterly data for the period 1984-2010. We employ the spread between BAA-rated corporate bond yield and...

In this paper we explore the effects of alternative combinations of fiscal and monetary poli- cies under different income distribution regimes. In particular, we aim at evaluating fis- cal rules in economies subject to banking crises and deep recessions. We do so using an agent-based model...

This work studies the interactions between income distribution and monetary and fiscal policies in terms of ensuing dynamics of macro variables (GDP growth, unemployment, etc.) on the grounds of an agent-based Keynesian model. The direct ancestor of this work is the "Keynes meeting Schumpeter"...

Recent empirical findings suggest that macroeconomic variables are seldom normally dis- tributed. For example, the distributions of aggregate output growth-rate time series of many OECD countries are well approximated by symmetric exponential-power (EP) den- sities, with Laplace fat tails. In...

We build an agent-based model to study how scal multipliers can change over the business cycle. Our approach considers the economy as a complex evolving system.In that,scal state-dependent multipliers are emergent disequilibrium phenomenon stemming from the interaction among an ecology of...

We build an agent-based model to study how the interplay between low- and high- frequency trading affects asset price dynamics. Our main goal is to investigate whether high-frequency trading exacerbates market volatility and generates ash crashes. In the model, low-frequency agents adopt trading...