Cyclical Effects of the Composition of Government Purchases /

This paper constructs a general equilibrium model with monopolistically competitive firms and endogenous markups where government spending consists of both consumption and investment goods. It is shown that when markups are countercyclical, increases in the share of investment goods in aggregate gov...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aziz, Jahangir
Other Authors: Leruth, Luc
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1997.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1997/019
Online Access:Full text available on IMF