Habit formation and fiscal transmission in open economies

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cardi, Olivier; Mueller, Gernot J.
• 署名单位: Universite Paris-Pantheon-Assas; Institut Polytechnique de Paris; Ecole Polytechnique; University of Bonn; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2011.07.007
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 256-267
• 关键词: investment; current account; habit formation; fiscal policy

摘要

In this paper we analyze the ability of an open economy version of the neoclassical model to account for the time-series evidence on fiscal policy transmission. Revisiting the evidence, we find that i) government spending raises output, while inducing a simultaneous decline of investment and the current account and ii) the responses of output and investment are more muted in more open economies while current account deficits tend to be larger. Turning to the model, we explore the role of habit formation for fiscal policy transmission. Specifically, we show that the model can account for the evidence if consumption behavior is characterized by habit formation and the terms of trade adjust endogenously. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.