Fève, Patrick and Pietrunti, Mario (2016) Noisy Fiscal Policy. TSE Working Paper, n. 16-634, Toulouse

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Abstract

This paper investigates the macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy in a setting in which private agents receive noisy signals about future shocks to government expenditures. We show how to empirically identify the relative weight of news and noise shocks to government spending and compute the level of noise for Canada, the UK and the US.We then investigate the quantitative implications of imperfect fiscal policy information using a medium-scale DSGE model. We find that when the government seeks to implement a persistent change in expected public spending, the existence of noise (as estimated using actual data) implies a sizable difference in fiscal multipliers compared to the perfect fiscal foresight case.

Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
Language: English
Date: March 2016
Place of Publication: Toulouse
Uncontrolled Keywords: Government spending, Noisy Information, DSGE Models
Subjects: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE
Divisions: TSE-R (Toulouse)
Institution: Université Toulouse 1 Capitole
Site: UT1
Date Deposited: 19 Apr 2016 14:15
Last Modified: 02 Apr 2021 15:51
OAI Identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:30372
URI: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/20238

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