Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/75713 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 583
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Should the government run fiscal deficits in response to an adverse external shock that warrants transfer of resources from production of non-traded to traded goods? This paper considers normative fiscal policy implications of sectoral adjustment costs in a two-sector model with overlapping generations. Fiscal deficits benefit present generations by depleting foreign assets and slowing down the adjustment process. We show that despite no nominal rigidities, temporary fiscal deficits increase social welfare if adjustment costs prevent immediate sectoral reallocation of inputs. If there are no adjustment costs, the case for fiscal deficits vanishes.
Subjects: 
fiscal policy
sectoral adjustment
intergenerational welfare
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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