A Party without a Hangover? On the Effects of U.S. Government Deficits

August 1, 2007

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Douglas Laxton, and Michael Kumhof. A Party without a Hangover? On the Effects of U.S. Government Deficits, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2007) accessed September 19, 2024

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Summary

This paper develops a 2-country New Keynesian overlapping generations model suitable for the joint evaluation of monetary and fiscal policies. We show that a permanent increase in U.S. government deficits raises the world real interest rate and significantly increases U.S. current account deficits, especially in the medium- to long-run. A simultaneous increase in non-U.S. savings lowers the world real interest rate and further increases U.S. current account deficits. We show that conventional infinite horizon models are ill-equipped to deal with issues that involve permanent changes in public or private sector savings rates.

Subject: Consumption, Current account deficits, Fiscal policy, Public debt, Real interest rates

Keywords: Present discounted value, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

38
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Series:

Working Paper No. 2007/202
Stock No:

WPIEA2007202
ISBN:

9781451867664
ISSN:

1018-5941

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