Does Government Spending Crowd In Private Consumption? Theory and Empirical Evidence for the Euro Area

August 1, 2005

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Günter Coenen, and Roland Straub. Does Government Spending Crowd In Private Consumption? Theory and Empirical Evidence for the Euro Area, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed September 20, 2024

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Summary

In this paper, we revisit the effects of government spending shocks on private consumption within an estimated New-Keynesian DSGE model of the euro area featuring non-Ricardian households. Employing Bayesian inference methods, we show that the presence of non- Ricardian households is in general conducive to raising the level of consumption in response to government spending shocks when compared with the benchmark specification without non-Ricardian households. However, we find that there is only a fairly small chance that government spending shocks crowd in consumption, mainly because the estimated share of non-Ricardian households is relatively low, but also because of the large negative wealth effect induced by the highly persistent nature of government spending shocks.

Subject: Consumption, Disposable income, Expenditure, Fiscal policy, Labor

Keywords: Government spending, WP

Publication Details

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37
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Working Paper No. 2005/159
Stock No:

WPIEA2005159
ISBN:

9781451861785
ISSN:

1018-5941

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