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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Autore principale: Aziz, Jahangir
Altri autori: Leruth, Luc
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1997.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1997/019
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF