Universität Bonn

Department of Economics

MEF Seminar Wintersemester 2021/22

Manuel Amador (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) 10.11.2021

We provide sufficient conditions for the feasibility of a Pareto-improving fiscal policy when the risk-free interest rate on government bonds is below the growth rate or there is a markup between price and marginal cost. We do so in the class of incomplete markets models pioneered by Bewley-Huggett-Aiyagari, but we allow for an arbitrary amount of ex ante heterogeneity in terms of preferences and income risk. We consider both the case of dynamic inefficiency as well as the more plausible case of dynamic efficiency. The key condition is that seigniorage revenue raised by government bonds exceeds the increase in the interest rate times the initial capital stock. The Pareto improving fiscal policies weakly expand every agent’s budget set at every point in time. The policies improve risk sharing
and potentially guide the economy to a more efficient level of capital.
Time
Wednesday, 10.11.21
Topic
"Micro Risks and Pareto Improving Policies"
Target groups

Students

Researchers

Location
via Zoom
Reservation
not required
Organizer
Institute for Macroeconomics and Econometrics
Contact
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