Redistributive fiscal policy and marginal propensities to consume

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Spector, Mariano
• 署名单位: International Monetary Fund
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0531
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2024.105843
• 发表日期: 2024
• 关键词: Heterogeneous agents; New Keynesian effects; Fiscal multipliers; aggregate demand

摘要

This paper studies the output effect of transfers in a New Keynesian model with heterogeneous dynasties of overlapping generations, which allows for arbitrary heterogeneity in marginal propensities to consume (MPCs). The role of MPCs is mainly to determine the timing of the fiscal stimulus. Thus, it is not MPCs per se that determine the cumulative effect on output, but rather the interaction between the timing of the stimulus and other features of the model, such as financial frictions and an endogenous monetary policy response. Financially -constrained households always prefer a front -loaded stimulus, while the endogenous monetary policy can generate an ambiguous relation between MPCs and output. From a normative perspective, however, there is no ambiguity: with larger differences in MPCs, macro stabilization can be obtained at a smaller welfare cost.