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Demand expectations and the timing of stimulus policies

Guimarães, Bernardo de Vasconcellos; Machado, Caio Henrique

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This paper proposes a simple macroeconomic model with staggered investment decisions. The model captures the dynamic coordination problem arising from demand externalities and fixed costs of investment. In times of low economic activity, a firm faces low demand and hence has less incentives for investing, which reinforces firms’ expectations of low demand. In the unique equilibrium of the model, demand expectations are pinned down by fundamentals and history. Owing to the beliefs that arise in equilibrium, there is no special reason for stimulus at times of low economic activity.

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Tipo
Estudo
Ano
2015
Instituição
Escola de Economia de São Paulo
Idioma
Inglês
Acesso
Não informado
Identificador
oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/13529

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