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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Principal: Aziz, Jahangir
Outros autores: Leruth, Luc
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1997.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1997/019
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF