Macroeconomic Policy and Public Choice /
Subject of this book is the intersection between political science and macroeconomics. The central idea is the existence of a political economic equilibrium in which the government acts to dampen the business cycle. The election cycle implies that this equilibrium may be a cycle rather than a point....
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
1997.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Subject of this book is the intersection between political science and macroeconomics. The central idea is the existence of a political economic equilibrium in which the government acts to dampen the business cycle. The election cycle implies that this equilibrium may be a cycle rather than a point. An extension of new Keynesian theory provides a model of endogenous stabilization in which the government practices short-run stabilization policy which dampens the impact of exogenous shocks. This is a situation in which rational voters favor discretionary policy over a fixed policy rule even with rational economic agents. Special attention is given to the relevant data and to the possibilities of hypothesis testing. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 275 pages 59 illustrations) |
| ISBN: | 9783642605642 (electronic bk.) 3642605648 (electronic bk.) |