E62 - Fiscal Policy

• The Macroeconomic Effects of Military Buildups in a New Neoclassical Synthesis Framework

  Staff Working Paper 2003-12 Alain Paquet, Louis Phaneuf, Nooman Rebei

  The authors study the macroeconomic consequences of large military buildups using a New Neoclassical Synthesis (NNS) approach that combines nominal rigidities within imperfectly competitive goods and labour markets. They show that the predictions of the NNS framework generally are consistent with the sign, timing, and magnitude of how hours worked, after-tax real wages, and output actually respond to an upsurge in military purchases.

  Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Economic models, Fiscal Policy JEL Code(s): E, E3, E32, E6, E62, H, H2

• Alternative Public Spending Rules and Output Volatility

  Staff Working Paper 2002-37 Jean-Paul Lam, William Scarth

  One of the central lessons learned from the Great Depression was that adjusting government spending each year to balance the budget increases the volatility of output.

  Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Economic models, Fiscal Policy, Transmission of monetary policy JEL Code(s): E, E5, E52, E58, E6, E62

• Entrepreneurial Risk, Credit Constraints, and the Corporate Income Tax: A Quantitative Exploration

  Staff Working Paper 2002-21 Césaire Meh

  This paper describes the positive effect that corporate income tax has on capital formation in the presence of liquidity constraints and uninsurable risk.

  Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Economic models, Fiscal Policy JEL Code(s): D, D3, D31, E, E6, E62, H, H2, H20, H23

• Entrepreneurship, Inequality, and Taxation

  Staff Working Paper 2002-14 Césaire Meh

  This paper confirms the conjecture that the evaluation of tax policy leads to very different conclusions once the role of entrepreneurs is considered. Contrary to previous literature, the author finds that switching from a progressive to a proportional income tax system has a negligible effect on wealth inequality in the United States.

  Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Economic models, Fiscal Policy JEL Code(s): D, D3, D31, E, E6, E62, H, H2, H20, H23

• Dynamic Employment and Hours Effects of Government Spending Shocks

  Staff Working Paper 1999-1 Mingwei Yuan, Wenli Li

  In this paper, we analyze the dynamic behaviour of employment and hours worked per worker in a stochastic general equilibrium model with a matching mechanism between vacancies and unemployed workers. The model is estimated for the United States using the Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM) estimation technique. An increase in government spending raises hours worked […]

  Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Fiscal Policy, Labour markets JEL Code(s): E, E2, E24, E3, E32, E6, E62, J, J6, J64

• The Effects of Budget Rules on Fiscal Performance and Macroeconomic Stabilization

  Staff Working Paper 1997-15 Jonathan Millar

  Budget rules can be defined as legislated or constitutional constraints on government deficits, taxes, expenditures, or debt. This paper reviews the budget rules recently legislated in six of Canada's provinces and both of its territories, as well as budget rules in other OECD countries.

  Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Fiscal Policy JEL Code(s): E, E6, E62, H, H3, H6, H61