Liberating Supply: Fiscal Policy and Technological Innovation in a Multicountry Model

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Tamim Bayoumi

International Monetary Fund (IMF); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

David T. Coe

International Monetary Fund (IMF); National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Douglas Laxton

International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department

Date Written: June 1998

Abstract

This paper examines how endogenizing technological progress in a multicountry macroeconometric model affects the analysis of fiscal policies. It uses an expanded version of the IMF`s multicountry model, MULTIMOD, in which total factor productivity (TFP) is endogenized as a function of domestic research and development (R&D) expenditures, R&D expenditures of trading partners, and trade. Compared with the standard version of the model with exogenous TFP, fiscal policies have much larger and long-lived effects on the domestic economy and on other countries.

Keywords: Technological Progress, R&D, Econometric Models

JEL Classification: O31, 040

Suggested Citation

Bayoumi, Tamim and Coe, David T. and Laxton, Douglas, Liberating Supply: Fiscal Policy and Technological Innovation in a Multicountry Model (June 1998). IMF Working Paper No. 98/95, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=882610

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