Labor-Market Search, Financial Market Integration, and the Fiscal Multiplier

We used a two‐country optimizing “new‐open‐economy macroeconomics” model to analyze the implications of financial market integration for the fiscal multiplier. The fiscal multiplier measures the accumulated effect of fiscal policy on output. Our model features a labor‐market friction in the form of...

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Published in:Review of international economics 2009-11, Vol.17 (5), p.986-1000
Main Authors: Çenesiz, M. Alper, Pierdzioch, Christian
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Economic theory
Fiscal policy
International capital market
International economics
Labor market
Labour market
Macroeconomics
Money multiplier
Public finance
Search theory
Securities markets
Studies
Trade multiplier
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Summary:We used a two‐country optimizing “new‐open‐economy macroeconomics” model to analyze the implications of financial market integration for the fiscal multiplier. The fiscal multiplier measures the accumulated effect of fiscal policy on output. Our model features a labor‐market friction in the form of labor‐market search. The conventional wisdom derived from the basic textbook version of the classic Mundell–Fleming model has been that financial market integration diminishes the fiscal multiplier. We show that labor‐market search implies that financial market integration should increase rather than decrease the fiscal multiplier.
ISSN:0965-7576
1467-9396
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9396.2008.00796.x