Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/184710 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 110
Publisher: 
Osnabrück University, Institute of Empirical Economic Research, Osnabrück
Abstract: 
We present a two-country New Open Economy Macroeconomics model of a currency union featuring an overlapping generations structure of the Blanchard (1985)-Yaari (1965) type as well as monopolistic frictions and staggered adjustment in the goods and labor market. We allow for public investment and distortionary taxation. We study the effects of fiscal policy measures such as public spending, tax cuts targeted to households and public investment as suggested by the Euro- pean Commission (2008). In particular, we explore the effects of fiscal policy as a function of the financing decision of the implementing government. We find that the impact of fiscal measures on national variables as well as the spillovers depend on the assumed degree of household myopia and again, the financing decision of the government. However, the introduction of a complex fiscal sector which enables the government to choose between alternative financing schemes is an important determinant of the effects of fiscal expansions on key macroeconomic variables such as, output and consumptions. Thus, modeling a complex fiscal sector on both sides of the budgets is crucial for the results and therefore the effectiveness of fiscal stimulus packages.
Subjects: 
Overlapping generations
New open economy macroeconomics
Public Debt
Decentralized fiscal policy
Monetary union
JEL: 
E62
F33
F41
H31
H50
H63
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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