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Endogenous business cycles and stabilization policies

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  • Marta Aloi
  • Hans Jorgen Jacobsen
  • Teresa Lloyd Braga

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The paper reports results on the effects of stylized stabilization policies on endogenously created fluctuations. A simple monetary model with intertemporally optimizing agents is considered. Fluctuations in output may occur due to fluctuations in labor supply which are again caused by volatile expectations which are ``self fulfilling'', i.e. correct given the model. It turns out that stabilization policies that are sufficiently countercyclical in the sense that government spending (on transfers or demand) depends sufficiently strongly negatively on GNP-increases can stabilize the economy at a monetary steady state for an arbitrarily low degree of distortion of that steady state. Such stabilization has unambiguously good welfare effects and can be achieved without features such as positive lump sum taxation or negative income taxation as part of the stabilization policy.

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  • Marta Aloi & Hans Jorgen Jacobsen & Teresa Lloyd Braga, 1998. "Endogenous business cycles and stabilization policies," Economics Working Papers 476, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, revised Jun 2000.
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    Keywords

    Endogenous business cycles; stabilization policy;

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    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • E63 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Comparative or Joint Analysis of Fiscal and Monetary Policy; Stabilization; Treasury Policy

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