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Cyclical Effects of the Composition of Government Purchases

By Jahangir Aziz, Luc E. Leruth

February 1, 1997

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Summary

This paper constructs a general equilibrium model with monopolistically competitive firms and endogenous markups where government spending consists of both consumption and investment goods. It is shown that when markups are countercyclical, increases in the share of investment goods in aggregate government expenditure entail a trade-off between greater long- run efficiency and higher short-run volatility. Estimates based on the model, calibrated to the postwar U.S. economy, show that the effects on output, employment, and welfare can be significant

Subject: Consumption, Employment, Expenditure, Labor, National accounts, Production, Public investment spending, Total factor productivity

Keywords: Aggregate demand, Consumption, Crowding in, Depreciation rate, Elasticities of firm, Employment, Equilibrium markup, Expenditure of the firm, Investment composite, Investment demand, Investment goods, Investment path, Investment share, Public investment spending, Share of investment, Steady state, Total factor productivity, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    38

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1997/019

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0191997

  • ISBN:

    9781451843712

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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