Indeterminacy and Stabilization Policy
Posted: 8 Oct 1998
Abstract
It has been shown that a one-sector real business cycle model with sufficient increasing returns in production may possess an indeterminate steady state that can be exploited to generate business cycles driven by "animal spirits" of agents. This paper shows how an income tax schedule that exhibits a progressivity feature can ensure saddle path stability in such a framework and thereby stabilize the economy against sunspot fluctuations. Conversely, an economy with a flat or regressive tax schedule is more susceptible to indeterminacy.
JEL Classification: E32, E62
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Guo, Jang-Ting and Lansing, Kevin J., Indeterminacy and Stabilization Policy. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=92196
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