Balanced-Budget Rules and Aggregate Instability: The Role of Endogenous Capital Utilization

It has long been demonstrated that in a closed economy a balanced-budget fiscal policy can induce aggregate instability unrelated to economic fundamentals. The empirical relevance of this result has been challenged by many studies. In this paper, we show that such extrinsic instability associated wi...

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Main Authors: Huang, K.X (Author), Meng, Q. (Author), Xue, J. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Blackwell Publishing Inc. 2018
Subjects:
E32
E62
Online Access:View Fulltext in Publisher
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520 3 |a It has long been demonstrated that in a closed economy a balanced-budget fiscal policy can induce aggregate instability unrelated to economic fundamentals. The empirical relevance of this result has been challenged by many studies. In this paper, we show that such extrinsic instability associated with a balanced-budget rule is a robust phenomenon in a similar closed-economy setting enhanced with endogenous capital utilization. This suggests that the design or operation of a balanced-budget fiscal policy should recognize that it may constitute a potential source of self-fulfilling prophecies and belief-driven fluctuations. © 2018 The Ohio State University 
650 0 4 |a balanced-budget rules 
650 0 4 |a capital utilization 
650 0 4 |a consumption taxes 
650 0 4 |a E32 
650 0 4 |a E62 
650 0 4 |a income taxes 
650 0 4 |a indeterminacy 
650 0 4 |a public debt 
650 0 4 |a self-fulfilling expectations 
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700 1 |a Meng, Q.  |e author 
700 1 |a Xue, J.  |e author 
773 |t Journal of Money, Credit and Banking