Deficits, government spending, and inflation
In: Journal of Monetary Economics, Band 4, Heft 3, S. 591-602
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In: Journal of Monetary Economics, Band 4, Heft 3, S. 591-602
In: Journal of sociology & social welfare, Band 4, Heft 8
ISSN: 1949-7652
In: The Western political quarterly, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 910-917
ISSN: 1938-274X
In: The Western political quarterly: official journal of Western Political Science Association, Band 13, S. 910-917
ISSN: 0043-4078
In: Eastern economic journal: EEJ, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 41-55
ISSN: 1939-4632
In: Darden Business School Working Paper No. 2634141
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This paper analyzes government commitments to ongoing spending programs that require future outlays. Spending commitments are important for understanding partisan politics because they constrain future governments. In a model with one government good, a 'stubborn liberal' policy maker can use precommitted spending to prevent a later conservative government from imposing decisive spending cuts. In a model where parties differ about spending priorities, reelection uncertainty creates a permanent bias towards higher government spending and higher taxes.
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We estimate the dynamic effects of government spending shocks, using time-varying volatility in US data modeled through a Markov switching process. We find that the average government spending multiplier is significantly and persistently above one, driven by a crowding-in of private consumption and non-residential investment. We rationalize the results empirically through a contemporaneously countercyclical response of government spending and an efficient weighting of observations inversely to their error variance. We then show that the multiplier is significantly smaller when volatility is high, consistent with theories predicting reduced effectiveness of fiscal interventions in uncertain times.
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In: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the era of the new deal
In: A Da Capo Press reprint series
In: Da Capo Press reprint series
In: Economic policy, Band 27, Heft 72, S. 521-565
ISSN: 1468-0327
In: Political research quarterly: PRQ ; official journal of the Western Political Science Association and other associations, Band 61, Heft 1, S. 147-157
ISSN: 1938-274X
Scholars have known for some time that attitudes toward federal spending on welfare are shaped by racial antipathies. Are attitudes toward spending on nonwelfare social programs similarly grounded? This article explores the dimensionality of spending attitudes and the extent to which they are rooted in stereotypical beliefs about blacks. Analysis of data from the 1992, 1996, and 2000 National Election Studies demonstrates that whites' attitudes toward welfare spending and social spending are structured in two-dimensional terms and that stereotypical beliefs about the work ethic of blacks systematically constrain their welfare attitudes and do not affect attitudes toward other social programs.
In: Social research: an international quarterly, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 194
ISSN: 0037-783X
In: American political science review, Band 87, Heft 4, S. 744
ISSN: 0003-0554
In: Public administration review: PAR, Band 74, Heft 3, S. 359-360
ISSN: 1540-6210
In: American political science review, Band 87, Heft 3, S. 744-750
ISSN: 0003-0554