Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/64165 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2011-26
Publisher: 
University of Massachusetts, Department of Economics, Amherst, MA
Abstract: 
This paper examines the fiscal requirements for continuous full employment. We find that (i) changes in the financial behavior of households and firms require adjustments in tax rates and public debt, (ii) the stability of the steady-state solution for public debt depends on the fiscal instrument and the household consumption function, (iii) in stable cases, a fall in government consumption (or a decline in another component of autonomous demand) requires an increase in the steady-state ratio of public debt to capital, and (iv) the steady-state tax rate may be positively or negatively related to the level of debt.
Subjects: 
public debt
stock-flow consistency
corporate economy
full employment
JEL: 
E62
E22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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