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The Short- and Long-Run Damages of Fiscal Austerity: Keynes beyond Schumpeter

In: Contemporary Issues in Macroeconomics

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  • Giovanni Dosi

    (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)

  • Mauro Napoletano

    (OFCE and SKEMA Business School)

  • Andrea Roventini

    (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
    OFCE and SKEMA Business School)

  • Tania Treibich

    (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
    OFCE and SKEMA Business School
    Maastricht University)

Abstract

In this work, we employ the Keynes+Schumpeter (K+S) agent-based model (Dosi et al., 2010, 2013, 2015) to compare short- and long-run effects of Keynesian fiscal policies vis-à-vis austerity rules.

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  • Giovanni Dosi & Mauro Napoletano & Andrea Roventini & Tania Treibich, 2016. "The Short- and Long-Run Damages of Fiscal Austerity: Keynes beyond Schumpeter," International Economic Association Series, in: Joseph E. Stiglitz & Martin Guzman (ed.), Contemporary Issues in Macroeconomics, chapter 8, pages 79-100, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-137-52958-9_9
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137529589_9
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    1. Dosi, G. & Pereira, M.C. & Roventini, A. & Virgillito, M.E., 2019. "What if supply-side policies are not enough? The perverse interaction of flexibility and austerity," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 162(C), pages 360-388.
    2. Giovanni Dosi & Marcelo C. Pereira & Andrea Roventini & Maria Enrica Virgillito, 2018. "The labour-augmented K+S model: a laboratory for the analysis of institutional and policy regimes," LEM Papers Series 2018/24, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
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    4. Giovanni Dosi & Andrea Roventini, 2019. "La solitudine dell'agente rappresentativo: eterogeneità e interazione per una nuova macroeconomia (The solitude of the representative agant: Heterogeneity and interaction for a new macroeconomics)," Moneta e Credito, Economia civile, vol. 72(287), pages 249-258.
    5. Giancarlo Bertocco & Andrea Kalajzic, 2026. "On the irrelevance of the concept of a natural rate of interest in a Schumpeter–Keynes perspective," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 36(1), pages 1-29, April.
    6. Dosi, G. & Pereira, M.C. & Roventini, A. & Virgillito, M.E., 2017. "When more flexibility yields more fragility: The microfoundations of Keynesian aggregate unemployment," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 81(C), pages 162-186.
    7. Davide Furceri & Prakash Loungani & Jonathan D Ostry & Pietro Pizzuto, 2021. "The rise in inequality after pandemics: can fiscal support play a mitigating role? [Epidemics, inequality, and poverty in preindustrial and early industrial time]," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 30(2), pages 445-457.
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    9. Amendola, Marco & Pereira, Marcelo C., 2025. "State-dependent impulse responses in agent-based models: A new methodology and an economic application," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 229(C).
    10. Giovanni Dosi & Andrea Roventini, 2017. "Agent-Based Macroeconomics and Classical Political Economy: Some Italian Roots," Italian Economic Journal: A Continuation of Rivista Italiana degli Economisti and Giornale degli Economisti, Springer;Società Italiana degli Economisti (Italian Economic Association), vol. 3(3), pages 261-283, November.
    11. Dosi, Giovanni & Lamperti, Francesco & Mazzucato, Mariana & Napoletano, Mauro & Roventini, Andrea, 2023. "Mission-oriented policies and the “Entrepreneurial State” at work: An agent-based exploration," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 151(C).
    12. Petrović, Marko & Ozel, Bulent & Teglio, Andrea & Raberto, Marco & Cincotti, Silvano, 2020. "Should I stay or should I go? An agent-based setup for a trading and monetary union," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 113(C).
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    14. G Dosi & M C Pereira & A Roventini & M E Virgillito, 2018. "Causes and consequences of hysteresis: aggregate demand, productivity, and employment," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 27(6), pages 1015-1044.
    15. Giovanni Dosi & Mauro Napoletano & Andrea Roventini & Joseph E. Stiglitz & Tania Treibich, 2020. "Rational Heuristics? Expectations And Behaviors In Evolving Economies With Heterogeneous Interacting Agents," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 58(3), pages 1487-1516, July.
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    18. Andrea Borsato, 2022. "An agent-based model for Secular Stagnation in the USA: theory and empirical evidence," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 32(4), pages 1345-1389, September.
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    20. Giorgio Fagiolo & Andrea Roventini, 2017. "Macroeconomic Policy in DSGE and Agent-Based Models Redux: New Developments and Challenges Ahead," Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, vol. 20(1), pages 1-1.
    21. Marco Amendola & Marcelo C. Pereira, 2026. "Are fiscal multipliers state-dependent? Insights from an agent-based model," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 36(1), pages 1-34, April.
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    23. Andrea Borsato, 2021. "An Agent-based Model for Secular Stagnation in the USA: Theory and Empirical Evidence," LEM Papers Series 2021/09, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
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    JEL classification:

    • C63 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Computational Techniques
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • E6 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
    • G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • O4 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity

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