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The political economy of inequality, mobility and redistribution 不平等、流动性和再分配的政治经济学
IF 1.4 3区 经济学
Journal of Macroeconomics Pub Date : 2023-12-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103585
Ignacio P. Campomanes
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Unveiling the impact of income taxes on inequality in a HACT model 在现金转移统一办法模型中揭示所得税对不平等的影响
IF 1.4 3区 经济学
Journal of Macroeconomics Pub Date : 2023-12-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103581
Francisco Parro
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Government spending multipliers: Is there a difference between government consumption and investment purchases? 政府支出乘数:政府消费和投资购买有区别吗?
IF 1.4 3区 经济学
Journal of Macroeconomics Pub Date : 2023-12-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103584
Alfred A. Haug , Anna Sznajderska
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Redistributive policy and R&D-based growth 再分配政策和以研发为基础的增长
IF 1.4 3区 经济学
Journal of Macroeconomics Pub Date : 2023-12-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103583
Ken Tabata
{"title":"Redistributive policy and R&D-based growth","authors":"Ken Tabata","doi":"10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103583","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103583","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines how redistributive policy that attempts to reduce inequality by taxing the bequests of the rich and redistributing the revenue to the poor affects economic growth in an overlapping generations model of R&amp;D-based growth with both product development and process innovation. We show that such a policy simultaneously increases growth and reduces inequality in the long-run. When the market structure adjusts, partially reducing inequality in the short-run, the effect of redistributive policy on economic growth depends on the values of the social return to variety parameter. However, when the market structure adjusts fully in the longrun, the redistributive policy decreases the entry of new firms but raises economic growth and reduces inequality.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Macroeconomics","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 103583"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138681207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Trust in public institutions, inequality, and digital interaction: Empirical evidence from European Union countries 对公共机构的信任、不平等和数字互动:来自欧盟国家的经验证据
IF 1.4 3区 经济学
Journal of Macroeconomics Pub Date : 2023-12-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103582
Flaviana Palmisano , Agnese Sacchi
{"title":"Trust in public institutions, inequality, and digital interaction: Empirical evidence from European Union countries","authors":"Flaviana Palmisano ,&nbsp;Agnese Sacchi","doi":"10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103582","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103582","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Declining institutional trust is one of the central problems in modern societies. Identifying its determinants, among which inequality, is fundamental for designing suitable interventions to restore confidence in institutions and preserve the social contract. We study the relationship between the two phenomena for EU-28 countries over the period 2003–2019. We use OLS and IV estimations to show that increasing income inequality is significantly associated with reduced trust in national governments. We also find that citizens’ digital interaction with the public administrations represents a mitigating channel as it contributes to shrinking the adverse effect of inequality on institutional trust, especially for more vulnerable categories in society, such as individuals with low educational attainment and those who are unemployed. These new insights might be particularly helpful for the government's agenda to meet transparency goals and provide more digital public services. From a policy viewpoint, redistribution policies combined with a well-established <em>e-relationship</em> between citizens and governments may be the road to restore trust in institutions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Macroeconomics","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 103582"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164070423000824/pdfft?md5=56bdb81356349e5e8e03aa84c323eb21&pid=1-s2.0-S0164070423000824-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138681258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Unconventional monetary policy, financial frictions, and the equity tandem 非常规货币政策,金融摩擦,和股票串联
IF 1.4 3区 经济学
Journal of Macroeconomics Pub Date : 2023-11-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103580
Roland von Campe
{"title":"Unconventional monetary policy, financial frictions, and the equity tandem","authors":"Roland von Campe","doi":"10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103580","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A key feature of many DSGE frameworks designed to model Quantitative Easing (QE) is that net worth only plays a relevant role on bank’s balance sheets. In reality, however, net worth of borrowers <em>and</em> lenders plays a relevant role in financing investment projects. I show that this <em>equity tandem</em> has important implications. Net worth of non-financial firms acts as a <em>first line of defense</em>, since non-financial firm’s balance sheets are hit in the first place by real sector shocks. Modeling the equity tandem increases the resilience of the model and, therefore, implies smaller gains of unconventional monetary policy. A novel insight from the simultaneous modeling of borrowers and lenders net worth is that by decreasing the cost of external finance a QE policy is redistributing net worth from banks to non-financial firms. Additionally, considering the reverse operation, a credibly announced Quantitative Tightening (QT), helps to stabilize the spread between the return to capital and the deposit rate during the zero lower bound period. However, different anticipated QT paths are shown to have little consequences for output and inflation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Macroeconomics","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 103580"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164070423000800/pdfft?md5=3022c7b5f3df4ac2bae4b51bf0967a03&pid=1-s2.0-S0164070423000800-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138453617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Labor market institutions and technology-induced labor adjustment along the extensive and intensive margins 劳动力市场制度和技术诱导的沿粗放型和集约型边际的劳动力调整
IF 1.4 3区 经济学
Journal of Macroeconomics Pub Date : 2023-11-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103571
Svetlana Rujin
{"title":"Labor market institutions and technology-induced labor adjustment along the extensive and intensive margins","authors":"Svetlana Rujin","doi":"10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103571","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>What is the composition of total hours response to a technology shock in countries with different labor market institutions in terms of extensive and intensive margin movements? To answer this question, I identify technology shocks using structural vector autoregressions (SVARs) and decompose the responses of hours into adjustments along the extensive and intensive margins. I compare the adjustments along the two margins between groups of countries with strict and flexible labor market institutions. I find that both margins play a large role in accommodating technology shocks, with adjustments along the intensive margin being more important. Furthermore, countries with flexible labor market institutions display a larger drop in employment, whereas the results for the intensive margin are mixed. Finally, the cross-country differences in fluctuations along the two margins can be linked to the strictness of institutions that target quantity and price adjustments in the labor market.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Macroeconomics","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 103571"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138327672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Life-cycle wealth accumulation and consumption insurance 生命周期财富积累和消费保险
IF 1.4 3区 经济学
Journal of Macroeconomics Pub Date : 2023-11-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103566
Claudio Campanale , Marcello Sartarelli
{"title":"Life-cycle wealth accumulation and consumption insurance","authors":"Claudio Campanale ,&nbsp;Marcello Sartarelli","doi":"10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103566","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Households appear to smooth consumption in the face of income shocks much more than implied by life-cycle versions of the standard incomplete market model under reference calibrations. In the current paper we explore in detail the role played by the life-cycle profile of wealth accumulation. We show that a standard model parameterized to match the latter can rationalize between 81 and 100 percent of the consumption insurance against permanent earnings shocks empirically estimated by Blundell, Pistaferri and Preston (2008), depending on the tightness of the borrowing limit.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Macroeconomics","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 103566"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164070423000666/pdfft?md5=09d20994b74b43c72409255090fc15e2&pid=1-s2.0-S0164070423000666-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134688903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The magnifying role of the banking sector during depressions 银行业在萧条时期的放大作用
IF 1.4 3区 经济学
Journal of Macroeconomics Pub Date : 2023-11-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103569
Paulo Júlio , José R. Maria
{"title":"The magnifying role of the banking sector during depressions","authors":"Paulo Júlio ,&nbsp;José R. Maria","doi":"10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103569","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Is there a magnifying role of the banking sector during depressions? How can a financial perturbation, possibly small-sized, create large impacts on output and enduring recessions? What is the role played by the massive stock of due claims brought about by a financial crisis? We address these questions by putting forth a general equilibrium model endowed with a banking system in which due claims – henceforth named due loans – and occasionally binding credit restrictions coexist and their effects reinforce each other. Under “bad” financially-driven perturbations due loans hike and the concomitant opportunity, holding, regulatory, and impairment costs trigger sizable increases in external finance <em>premia</em> and promote credit restrictiveness. Firms’ net worth collapses as they are called in to finance banks’ problems, and their ability to invest and accumulate capital becomes compromised. The amplification effect can be very large: the full-fledged banking model may only require a perturbation of one-tenth the size of a plain vanilla version to deliver the same output drop at the trough. Effects are non-linear, since credit restrictions remain slack on the boundary of the steady state, and asymmetric, since these restrictions play no role whatsoever under “good shocks.”</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Macroeconomics","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 103569"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92063262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The limits of limitless debt 无限债务的限制
IF 1.4 3区 经济学
Journal of Macroeconomics Pub Date : 2023-11-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103567
Kent Osband, Valerio Filoso, Salvatore Capasso
{"title":"The limits of limitless debt","authors":"Kent Osband,&nbsp;Valerio Filoso,&nbsp;Salvatore Capasso","doi":"10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103567","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jmacro.2023.103567","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While low real interest rates and issuing public debt in fiat money safeguard against rising sovereign debt-to-GDP ratios, evidence shows that high debt often precedes default, and credit spreads may not signal imminent risk.</p><p>We offer a simple way to model the trade-offs using local martingales. On the one hand, it acknowledges that large debt overhangs tend to raise default risks. On the other hand, it allows sovereigns to roll over debt regardless of long-term fiscal solvency. The combination allows credit spreads to stay very low for decades, eventually spiral out of control and trigger a default. Hence, neither the reassurance of low spreads nor the alarm from growing overhang should automatically prevail.</p><p>To illustrate the trade-offs, we review the ebb and flow of US sovereign debt burdens since World War II. Between record peacetime debt-to-GDP ratios and weakened fiscal discipline, an exemplary double-or-triple-A credit rating for the US no longer seems justified. Moreover, the current outlook is poor, with debt growing much faster than GDP and scant prospects of contraction.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Macroeconomics","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 103567"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164070423000678/pdfft?md5=92a8e818f087c79208806bca9f00fde6&pid=1-s2.0-S0164070423000678-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135411489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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