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Economic Production and Biodiversity in the United States
Liang, Yuanning; Rudik, Ivan J.; Zou, Eric Yongchen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
causal evidence on the economic drivers of biodiversity loss using a novel panel dataset on the types and quantities of … pollution as underlying contributors to contemporaneous biodiversity declines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660035
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Bias in U.S. Import Prices and Demand
Feenstra, Robert C. - 1994
The purpose of the paper is to measure the potential bias in the U.S. import price index due to the appearance of new … product varieties, or new foreign suppliers, and determine the effect of this bias on the estimated income elasticity of … share of import expenditure on the sampled products is falling over time, this will lead to an upward bias in the measured …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474074
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The U.S. Fiscal Problem : Where We Are, How We Got Here and Where We're Going
Auerbach, Alan J. - 1994
This paper deals with several issues regarding the causes and implications of recent and projected U.S. federal budget deficits. It considers why deficits have remained so large in spite of deficit reduction efforts, evaluates the impact of the recent policies of the Clinton administration, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474219
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Innovation in the U.S. Government
Bruce, Joshua R. - 2020
This paper examines the U.S. government's intramural research and development efforts over a 40-year period, drawing together multiple human capital, government spending, and patent datasets. The U.S. Federal Government innovates along four dimensions: technological, organizational, regulatory,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481764
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Partisanship and Fiscal Policy in Economic Unions : Evidence from U.S. States
Carlino, Gerald A.; Drautzburg, Thorsten; Inman, Robert P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Partisanship of state level politicians affect the impact of federal fiscal policy in the U.S. Using data from close gubernatorial elections, we find partisan differences in the marginal propensity to spend federal transfers since the early 1980's: Republican governors spend less. A New...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482641
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Fiscal Policy and Households' Inflation Expectations : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Rising government debt levels around the world are raising the specter that authorities might seek to inflate away the debt. In theoretical settings where fiscal policy "dominates" monetary policy, higher debt without offsetting changes in primary surpluses should lead households to anticipate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482700
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Estimating the Net Fiscal Cost of a Child Tax Credit Expansion
Goldin, Jacob; Maag, Elaine; Michelmore, Katherine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Recent proposals to expand the Child Tax Credit (CTC) are at the center of current policy discussions in the United States. We study the fiscal cost of three such proposals that would expand refundability of the credit to low-income children, increase the maximum credit amount, and/or eliminate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660020
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Where Do My Tax Dollars Go? Tax Morale Effects of Perceived Government Spending
Giaccobasso, Matías; Nathan, Brad C.; Perez-Truglia, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Do perceptions about how the government spends tax dollars affect the willingness to pay taxes? We designed a field experiment to test this hypothesis in a natural, high-stakes context and via revealed preferences. We measure perceptions about the share of property tax revenues that fund public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938758
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On the ease of overstating the fiscal stimulus in the US, 2008-9
Aizenman, Joshua - 2010
This note shows that the aggregate fiscal expenditure stimulus in the United States, properly adjusted for the declining fiscal expenditure of the fifty states, was close to zero in 2009. While the Federal government stimulus prevented a net decline in aggregate fiscal expenditure, it did not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462868
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Correlated Disturbances and U.S. Business Cycles
Cúrdia, Vasco - 2010
The dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models that are used to study business cycles typically assume that exogenous disturbances are independent autoregressions of order one. This paper relaxes this tight and arbitrary restriction, by allowing for disturbances that have a rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462877