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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Auteur principal: Aziz, Jahangir
Autres auteurs: Leruth, Luc
Format: Revue
Langue:English
Publié: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1997.
Collection:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1997/019
Accès en ligne:Full text available on IMF