The Role of Tendency of Government Preference in an Optimal Fiscal Policy Model in the Presence of Agent Heterogeneity in A dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) Framework

Subject Areas : Labor and Demographic Economics

hamidreza izadi ¹

1 - assistant professor

Received: 2019-03-10 Accepted : 2019-03-10 Published : 2019-02-20

Keywords: Fiscal Policy, F42, JEL Classification: E63, H53. Keywords: Optimal Policy, Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE), Heterogeneous Government Preferences,

Abstract :

Abstract         This paper examines an optimal fiscal policy model in the presence of agents heterogeneous in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium framework. Therefore, the presence of heterogeneous agents in the model led to create limitation that will be call government preference. The role of these preferences and tendency of the Government to the poor or the rich group can change the results of optimal policies on the economy. By using a dynamic stochastic general model, the role of government preferences tendency was been surveyed. The results indicate that in these models, the role of government expenditure financing through available taxes in the policymaking system, is partly dependent on the government preferences tendency. On the bases of the results, it is suggested that separating the government preferences and tendency in relation to the poor and the rich.

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