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Essays in Macroeconomics and Fiscal Policy
Essays in Macroeconomics and Fiscal Policy
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211151414
- ISBN
- 9798382760964
- DDC
- 658
- 서명/저자
- Essays in Macroeconomics and Fiscal Policy
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Northwestern University, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 162 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Angeletos, George-Marios;Lorenzoni, Guido.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This thesis includes three essays in macroeconomics and fiscal policy. Chapter 1 studies how the optimal mix of debt and redistributive taxation depends on social preferences for redistribution. I consider a standard heterogeneous-agent incomplete-markets economy where public debt provides liquidity and helps agents self-insure against idiosyncratic income risk. Redistributive taxation is distortionary but also acts as a form of social insurance due to market incompleteness. I solve for the limiting steady state of the fully dynamic optimal policy problem for this economy. I show that planners with stronger preferences for redistribution implement more progressive tax systems, as one would expect. But, perhaps surprisingly, they also favor lower levels of public debt. This property of the optimal mix is robust to a number of extensions to the baseline environment and is mainly due to a novel interest rate channel: redistributive taxation reduces the need to self-insure and thus makes government borrowing less attractive.Chapter 2 is the product of joint work with George-Marios Angeletos. We study the implications of rationally inattentive behavior for the design of optimal taxes. Our main finding is an irrelevance result: when inattention satisfies two key properties, invariance and state separability, optimal taxes satisfy exactly the same type of sufficient-statistics formula as that found in classical public finance. Away from this benchmark, inattention can lead to novel considerations for the design of optimal taxes. First, some forms of inattention may generate interdependences across states. Second, departures from invariance may call for simplifying the tax system. Finally, we clarify that inattention does not necessarily make agents less responsive and may thus call for lower taxes.Chapter 3 is the product of joint work with Fergal Hanks and analyzes the joint dynamics of labour and capital in economies with heterogeneous firms. We develop a model of lumpy capital adjustment with frictional hiring that helps resolve the tension between existing models of investment and the latest microeconomic evidence on capital and labor adjustment. Unlike existing models of investment, our model is consistent with the well-documented lumpiness of firm investment at the micro level and the responsiveness of investment to changes in the cost of capital. Finally, we provide evidence that supports frictional hiring and study the aggregate dynamics of lumpy investment models with frictional hiring.
- 일반주제명
- Finance
- 키워드
- Macroeconomics
- 키워드
- Fiscal policy
- 키워드
- Optimal taxes
- 기타저자
- Northwestern University Economics
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-11A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■5021 ▼aThesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2024.
■520 ▼aThis thesis includes three essays in macroeconomics and fiscal policy. Chapter 1 studies how the optimal mix of debt and redistributive taxation depends on social preferences for redistribution. I consider a standard heterogeneous-agent incomplete-markets economy where public debt provides liquidity and helps agents self-insure against idiosyncratic income risk. Redistributive taxation is distortionary but also acts as a form of social insurance due to market incompleteness. I solve for the limiting steady state of the fully dynamic optimal policy problem for this economy. I show that planners with stronger preferences for redistribution implement more progressive tax systems, as one would expect. But, perhaps surprisingly, they also favor lower levels of public debt. This property of the optimal mix is robust to a number of extensions to the baseline environment and is mainly due to a novel interest rate channel: redistributive taxation reduces the need to self-insure and thus makes government borrowing less attractive.Chapter 2 is the product of joint work with George-Marios Angeletos. We study the implications of rationally inattentive behavior for the design of optimal taxes. Our main finding is an irrelevance result: when inattention satisfies two key properties, invariance and state separability, optimal taxes satisfy exactly the same type of sufficient-statistics formula as that found in classical public finance. Away from this benchmark, inattention can lead to novel considerations for the design of optimal taxes. First, some forms of inattention may generate interdependences across states. Second, departures from invariance may call for simplifying the tax system. Finally, we clarify that inattention does not necessarily make agents less responsive and may thus call for lower taxes.Chapter 3 is the product of joint work with Fergal Hanks and analyzes the joint dynamics of labour and capital in economies with heterogeneous firms. We develop a model of lumpy capital adjustment with frictional hiring that helps resolve the tension between existing models of investment and the latest microeconomic evidence on capital and labor adjustment. Unlike existing models of investment, our model is consistent with the well-documented lumpiness of firm investment at the micro level and the responsiveness of investment to changes in the cost of capital. Finally, we provide evidence that supports frictional hiring and study the aggregate dynamics of lumpy investment models with frictional hiring.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0163.
■650 4▼aFinance
■653 ▼aMacroeconomics
■653 ▼aFiscal policy
■653 ▼aOptimal taxes
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■690 ▼a0508
■71020▼aNorthwestern University▼bEconomics.
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■791 ▼aPh.D.
■792 ▼a2024
■793 ▼aEnglish
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