A fiscal perspective on nominal GDP targeting.

This paper studies fiscal policy in a model with nominal gross domestic product (GDP) targeting. We find that, with wage rigidity, nominal GDP targeting generates lower welfare losses than inflation targeting and a Taylor rule. On the other hand, adopting this regime makes standard fiscal policy rul...

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Publicado en:Economic Inquiry Vol. 59; no. 4; pp. 1641 - 1661
Autores principales: Abo‐Zaid, Salem, Chen, Huiying, Kamara, Ahmed
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Oct2021
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          Abo‐Zaid, Salem
          Chen, Huiying
          Kamara, Ahmed
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          Department of Economics, University of Maryland‐Baltimore County, Baltimore Maryland,, USA
          Department of Economics, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond Oklahoma,, USA
          Department of Decision Sciences & Economics, College of Business, Texas A&M University‐Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi Texas,, USA
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        Fiscal policy
        Taylor's rule
        Inflation targeting
        Gross domestic product
        Monetary policy
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          Public Finance Activities
          Taylor's rule
          Inflation targeting
          Gross domestic product
          Monetary policy
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        fiscal policy
        government spending multiplier
        inflation targeting
        nominal GDP targeting
        tax multipliers
        welfare
        fiscal policy
        government spending multiplier
        inflation targeting
        nominal GDP targeting
        tax multipliers
        welfare
      ab: This paper studies fiscal policy in a model with nominal gross domestic product (GDP) targeting. We find that, with wage rigidity, nominal GDP targeting generates lower welfare losses than inflation targeting and a Taylor rule. On the other hand, adopting this regime makes standard fiscal policy rules, whereby distortionary tax rates are designed to respond to economic activity, dependent on the behavior of inflation instead. We also find that the fiscal multipliers with nominal GDP targeting are smaller than the multipliers under inflation targeting and the Taylor rule. Therefore, nominal GDP targeting does not necessarily outperform other monetary policy rules.
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