Targeted transfers and the fiscal response to the great recession |
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Authors: | Hyunseung Oh Ricardo Reis |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Economics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, United States;2. NBER, United States;3. CEPR, United Kingdom |
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Abstract: | Between 2007 and 2009, government expenditures increased rapidly across the OECD countries. While economic research on the impact of government purchases has flourished, in the data, most of the increase in expenditures was in government transfers. After documenting this fact, we argue that future research should focus on the positive impact of transfers. Towards this, we present a model in which there is no representative agent and Ricardian equivalence does not hold because of uncertainty, imperfect credit markets, and nominal rigidities. Targeted lump-sum transfers are expansionary both because of a neoclassical wealth effect and because of a Keynesian aggregate demand effect. |
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