期刊名称:DEEP Cahiers de Recherches Économiques / Université de Lausanne
出版年度:2007
卷号:1
出版社:Université de Lausanne
摘要:In this paper we study the impact of a government spending shock on aggregate consumption, building on the GLV (Gali, Lopez-Salido and Valles (2007)) model. We show that the GLV model implies a counterfactual increase in the real wage, the interest rate and the in.ation rate. The introduction of sticky wages solves these problems and preserves the main result of the model, i.e. the positive response of consumption. Moreover, once we relax the common wage assumption, sticky wages are even essential to reproduce the positive response of consumption.
关键词:Sticky wages, rule-of-thumb consumers, fiscal shocks, firm-specific capital