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Tag Archives: Stimulus
Fiscal Policy and MPC Heterogeneity
Tullio Jappelli and Luigi Pistaferri have a recent paper called Fiscal Policy and MPC Heterogeneity. Here’s an interesting figure from it that shows how MPC varies by cash-on-hand: They aren’t the only ones who document MPC heterogeneity. Dynan, Skinner, Zeldes have a … Continue reading
Tax Cuts for Whom? Do tax changes for high income taxpayers generate more growth than similarly sized tax changes for lower income taxpayers?
This figure, which is from a recently revised and submitted paper of mine, shows how the multiplier varies across the income distribution. It shows that equivalently sized tax changes for lower income groups have larger macroeconomic impacts on … Continue reading
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Tagged Employment Growth, Fiscal Policy, Great Recession, inequality, Jobs, Middle Class, Redistribution, Stimulus, Tax Cuts, Tax Cuts for Whom, Taxes
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The Pace of the Recovery: Output and Employment Growth Since 1985
Laura Tyson has a piece today on the slow pace of the recovery: Since 2010, annual growth of gross domestic product has averaged about 2.1 percent. This is less than half the average pace of recoveries from previous recessions in … Continue reading
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Tagged Fiscal Cliff, Growth, jobless recovery, Jobs, Laura Tyson, Stimulus
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Fiscal Policy and Economic Recovery: The Case of the 1936 Veterans’ Bonus
Josh Hausman, an economics job market candidate from Berkeley, has a guest post on Miles Kimball’s blog that’s worth checking out: An excellent historical analogy to Miles’s Federal Lines of Credit proposal are the 1931 loans to World War I veterans that I … Continue reading
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Tagged Federal Lines of Credit, Fiscal Policy, Great Depression, Josh Hausman, Miles Kimball, Recession, Recovery, Spending, Stimulus
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The Growing Burden of Payroll Taxes
Here’s a column on reforming the payroll tax that I wrote in NYTimes Economix today: Payroll taxes and corporate income taxes accounted for an equal share of federal tax revenue in 1969. By 2009, payroll taxes generated more than six times as much … Continue reading
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Tagged Baumol's cost, Corporate Income Tax, debt, Disability Insurance, Economic Policy, Fiscal Cliff, Healthcare, income taxes, inequality, Jobs, Medicare, Middle Class, NYTimes, Payroll tax, Progressivity, Revenue, skills, social insurance, social security, Stimulus, Tax Cuts for Whom, Tax Reform, Taxes, technology
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Christy Romer on the Effectiveness of the Recovery Act
The most successful of these studies focus on the variation in Recovery Act spending across states. Some of this variation resulted from differences in the recession’s severity. For example, there was much more spending on unemployment insurance in Michigan than … Continue reading
Job Growth: Obama Recovery much better than Bush in Private Sector
To understand the competing claims about job growth under Obama and Bush, you really need to look at these two graphs (from Paul Krugman) that separate private and public employment. Key Points Private sector job growth is much more impressive … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush, Government, Growth, Jobs, Obama, Paul Krugman, Recovery, Stimulus
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