Alexandru MINEA
MINEA
Alexandru
enseignant-chercheurs
Domaine de recherche : Macroéconomie et Finance
E-mail : alexandru.minea@uca.fr
Travaux
- Publications dans des revues scientifiques
- Ouvrages et rapports
- Documents de travail et autres publications
- Communications
2023
The sectoral trade losses from financial crises
Abstract The “Great Trade Collapse” triggered by the 2008-2009 crisis calls for a careful assessment of the trade losses from financial crises. We adopt a more detailed perspective by looking at the response of different types of trade (i.e. consumption, intermediate, capital goods, and business services) following various types of financial crises (i.e. debt, banking, and currency crises) in 41 emerging markets. Estimations performed in the 1980-2019 period using a combination of impact assessment and local projections to capture a causal dynamic effect running from financial crises to the trade activity show that the collapse of total trade is long-lasting and mainly driven by the fall of intermediate goods and to some extent capital goods, while trade in consumption goods and business services is more resilient to crises. Therefore, financial crises could lead to considerable disruption of global value chains, as observed during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), and easily spill over from one country to another through trade linkages. The examination of heterogeneity reveals that total and sectoral trade is more severely impacted in countries with a lower share of manufacturing exports, less diversified exported products, and trading partners, with lower demand from trading partners and when associated with a deterioration of the domestic and external financial conditions and sudden stops. By contributing to the understanding of the trade effects of financial crises, our analysis provides insightful support for the design and implementation of policies aimed at coping with these effects.
Lien HALEnvironmental quality along the process of economic growth: a theoretical reappraisal
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Lien HALInflation targeting and fiscal policy volatility: Evidence from developing countries
This paper studies the effect of inflation targeting (IT) on fiscal policy volatility. Using data for 83 developing countries over 1985-2020, estimations based on impact analysis methods reveal that IT adoption reduces fiscal policy volatility. This result is robust when using a wide set of alternative specifications related to additional control variables, different samples, alternative measures of the main variables, or alternative estimation methods. Consequently, contributing to the ongoing literature on fiscal policy volatility, our results suggest that reforms of the monetary policy management in the form of IT adoption may provide a useful policy for fighting fiscal discretion towards a reduction of fiscal policy volatility.
Lien HALInflation targeting and the composition of public expenditure: Evidence from developing countries
An important literature shows that inflation targeting (IT) adoption improves fiscal discipline. Our impact assessment analysis performed in a large sample of 89 developing countries over three decades shows that this favorable impact covers a composition effect: IT adoption is found to reduce more current expenditure compared with public investment in IT countries relative to non-IT countries. This finding is robust to various alternative specification, related to the structure of the sample, the measurement of the IT regime, or the estimation method. Consequently, aside from its acknowledged benefits for monetary policy goals, IT appears as an efficient tool to strengthen fiscal policy in developing countries towards lower and more productive public expenditure.
Lien HAL2022
Can Public Debt Mitigate Environmental Debt? Theory and Empirical Evidence
This paper investigates the relationship between public debt and environmental debt—reflecting CO carbon concentration. First, using an endogenous growth model in which pollution abatement spending can be financed by public debt, we show that public debt and environmental debt are complementary in the long run and usually substitutes in the short run. Second, these predictions are empirically confirmed: in particular, a 1% increase in the public debt ratio leads to an increase of 0.74% in cumulative CO per capita in the long run. Our findings emphasize the difficulty of defining policies that jointly serve both the economic (fiscal) and the environmental goals, due to the short- and long-run conflicting environmental effects of policies that either reduce or do not constrain public debt.
Lien HALDoes more finance lead to longer crises?
Empirical studies emphasise that higher financial development (FD) amplifies the output cost of banking crises. However, no study has so far investigated the effect of FD on another key dimension of banking crises, namely their duration. Using a large sample of banking crises over the 1977-2014 period, we find that higher FD is associated with a significant increase in the duration of banking crises (DBC). This result is robust to a broad range of alternative specifications and is unaffected by unobserved heterogeneity or endogeneity. Finally, we show that the effect of FD on DBC is subject to nonlinearities and varies across decades and with the level of economic development.
Lien HAL2021
Inflation targeting adoption and institutional quality: Evidence from developing countries
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Lien HAL2018
Inflation Targeting, Fiscal Rules and the Policy Mix: Cross‐effects and Interactions
Résumé non disponible.
Lien HALDeficit, monetization, and economic growth: a case for multiplicity and indeterminacy
This paper develops an original analysis of deficit monetization in a growth model with transaction costs, in which economic growth interacts with productive public expenditures. This interaction generates two positive balanced growth paths (BGP) in the long run: a high BGP and a low BGP. The transitional dynamics show that multiplicity cannot be rejected if transaction costs affect both consumption and investment expenditures, with possible indeterminacy of the high BGP. Importantly, deficit monetization is shown to reduce the parameter space producing indeterminacy.
Lien HAL2015
Deforestation and Seigniorage in Developing Countries: A Tradeoff?
Most of countries covered by natural forests are developing countries, with limited ability to levy taxes and restrained access to international credit markets. Consequently, they are amenable to draw heavily on two sources of government financing, namely seigniorage and deforestation revenues. First, we develop a theoretical model emphasizing a substitution effect between seigniorage and deforestation revenues. Second, a panel-data econometric analysis over the 1990–2010 period confirms our findings. Consequently, a tighter monetary policy hastens deforestation. Third, we extend the theoretical model and show that international transfers dedicated to forest protection can upturn the positive link between tighter monetary policies and deforestation, and then discuss the relevance of this finding with respect to recent institutional arrangements.
Lien HAL2014
Debt, seigniorage, and the Growth Laffer Curve in developing countries
The endogenous growth literature established the existence of an inverted-U curve between taxes and economic growth, namely a Growth Laffer Curve, but empirical evidence on this relationship in developing countries is rather limited. Given that seigniorage and public debt are also important means of financing public spending in these countries, we take into account in this paper their respective impacts on growth, as they might deform the existing relationship between taxes and growth. To this end, we develop a growth model with public investment as the engine of perpetual growth, and look for the effect of debt, tax and money financing on economic growth. We study in particular the way fiscal and monetary policies deform the Growth Laffer Curve in developing countries. An empirical section based on a panel of 100 developing countries over the period 1980–2010 provides both OLS-Fixed Effects and GMM-system estimations that support our theoretical conclusions, namely the existence of Growth Laffer Curves indexed by the levels of debt and of seigniorage.
Lien HALLes pays d’Europe centrale et orientale et l’Union européenne : quelles stratégies de politiques budgétaire et monétaire ?
Les récentes élections européennes qui se sont déroulées dans un climat pessimiste et les graves tensions manifestées dans le voisinage esteuropéen, soulèvent la question du devenir des pays d’Europe centrale et orientale (PECO). Ces économies en ont-elles terminé de leur transition économique ? L’intégration à l’Union européenne (UE) est-elle (toujours) un mirage ? Avant d’essayer de répondre à ces questions, il nous semble pertinent de proposer un tour d’horizon de la conjoncture macro-économique dans ces pays. Il ressort assez rapidement de ce panorama qu’au-delà des cycles conjoncturels, beaucoup de ces économies sont confrontées à de réelles difficultés structurelles, qu’il s’agisse de leur capacité à générer de la croissance, ou encore de leur faculté à réorganiser leur système financier. L’intégration à l’Union européenne a pu servir d’ancrage pour les réformes nécessaires et en même temps pour connecter ces nouvelles économies de marché à une zone, certes riche, mais engluée dans une croissance molle. Quelles sont les perspectives pour les pays intégrés depuis 2004, ou plus récemment et plus encore, pour ceux qui souhaiteraient l’être dans le futur ?
Lien HAL2013
Debt policy rule, productive government spending, and multiple growth paths: a note
In a very interesting endogenous growth model, Futagami, Iwaisako, and Ohdoi [Macroeconomic Dynamics 12 (2008), 445-462] study the long-run growth effect of borrowing for public investment. Their model exhibits (i) the ltiplicity of balanced growth paths (BGPs) in the long run (two steady states) and (ii) a possible indeterminacy of the transition path to the high-growth BGP. The goal of this note is to show that their results depend on a sharp assumption, namely the definition of the public debt target as a ratio to private capital. If the target is defined in terms of public debt-to-GDP ratio, both results vanish: the model exhibits a unique BGP (no multiplicity) and the adjustment path to this unique equilibrium is determinate (no indeterminacy).
Lien HALIs public capital really productive? A methodological reappraisal
We present an evaluation of the main empirical approaches used in the literature to estimate the contribution of public capital stock to growth and private factors' productivity. Based on a simple stochastic general equilibrium model, built as to reproduce the main long-run relations observed in US post-war historical data, we show that the production function approach may not be reliable to estimate this contribution. Our analysis reveals that this approach largely overestimates the public capital elasticity, given the presence of a common stochastic trend shared by all non-stationary inputs.
Lien HAL2011
External Monetary Shocks and Monetary Integration: Evidence from the Bulgarian Currency Board
Starting July the 1st 1997, Bulgaria adopted a Currency Board (CB) monetary system. This paper aims at investigating if the adoption of the CB monetary system, which involves the cost of losing monetary autonomy, has provided a relatively better (with respect to other CEEC) monetary integration of Bulgaria with the European Monetary Union (EMU). Since Bulgarian monetary variables are endogenous under a CB, we focus on the ECB and FED interest rates as the main sources on monetary volatility. First, we find that ECB shocks are more rapidly absorbed and have less significant impact of domestic variables, with respect to other external monetary shocks (FED rate changes). Second, the responses of Bulgarian variables following changes in the ECB interest rate present lower persistence and significance, with respect to what the previous literature emphasized for other CEEC with monetary autonomy. This latter result still holds when accounting for different sources of cross-country heterogeneity outlined in the literature, thus supporting that the adoption of the CB may have worked as a rather good device in terms of integration of Bulgaria into the EMU.
Lien HALDéficits persistants et croissance endogène
Dans cet article, nous nous intéressons aux effets des déficits publics sur la croissance, dans un modèle de croissance endogène avec investissement public pouvant être financé par impôt ou dette publique. Nous nous focalisons sur la croissance de long terme et étudions la manière dont des déficits persistants influencent la croissance. Nous montrons que ces déficits réduisent toujours la croissance à long terme, indépendamment des règles budgétaires adoptées par le gouvernement.
Lien HAL2010
Financial Development, Institutional Quality and Maximizing-Growth Trade-Off in Government Finance
This paper studies monetary and fiscal policies in an endogenous growth model with transaction costs. We show that the relation between long-run economic growth and both monetary and fiscal policies is subject to threshold effects, a result that gives account of a number of recent empirical findings. Furthermore, the model shows that, to finance public expenditures, growth-maximizing governments must choose relatively high seigniorage (respectively income taxation), if “institutional quality” and “financial development” indicators are low (respectively high). Thus, our model may explain why some governments resort to seigniorage and inflationary finance, and others rather resort to high tax rates, as a result of growthmaximizing strategies in different structural environments (notably concerning institutional and financial development contexts). In addition, the model allows examining how the optimal mix of government finance changes in response to different public debt contexts. A short empirical section confirms our theoretical results.
Lien HALDéveloppement financier, qualité institutionnelle et croissance : un modèle simple avec effet de seuil
Dans les analyses empiriques, la " qualité institutionnelle " semble être une variable déterminante pour établir le sens de la relation entre finance et croissance. Ainsi, Demetriades & Law (2004) montrent que le développement financier exerce un effet favorable sur la croissance lorsque les institutions sont saines, alors que cette corrélation disparaît si les institutions sont altérées. Dans cet article, nous tentons de reproduire ce fait saillant dans un modèle de croissance endogène. Dans notre modèle, lorsque la qualité institutionnelle dépasse un certain seuil, la relation entre finance et croissance est positive, alors qu'en deçà du seuil, elle devient négative. Ce résultat s'explique de la manière suivante : le développement financier abaisse les coûts de transaction sur l'investissement privé, mais réduit également les recettes de seigneuriage utilisables pour les investissements publics. Par conséquent, il est favorable à la croissance seulement si d'autres recettes publiques peuvent être utilisées pour financer les investissements publics, donc si la qualité institutionnelle est suffisante pour permettre de collecter des impôts autrement que par taxe inflationniste. Au contraire, si la qualité institutionnelle est trop faible, la perte de recettes de seigneuriage ne peut être compensée par la collecte de nouveaux impôts, et les infrastructures nécessaires au développement ne peuvent être programmées.
Lien HALDette publique, croissance et bien-être : une perspective de long terme
Nous proposons un modèle théorique simple permettant de prendre en compte l'existence de régimes d'endettement de long terme, en accord avec les faits saillants observés en longue période. Nous nous intéressons particulièrement aux effets d'une hausse permanente de la dette publique sur la croissance à long terme, et nous montrons que ces effets, toujours négatifs (on nuls), dépendent dans leur ampleur de la variable d'ajustement à la charge de la dette dans la contrainte budgétaire de l'Etat. Enfin, nous montrons qu'au contraire des effets sur la croissance, les effets sur le bien-être à long terme d'une hausse permanente de la dette publique peuvent être positifs. Nous en déduisons l'existence d'un seuil optimal pour le ratio de dette publique au PIB.
Lien HALEndogenous Growth, Government Debt and Budgetary Regimes : A Corrigendum
We correct an error in [Greiner, A., Semmler, W., 2000. Endogenous growth, government debt and budgetary regimes. Journal of Macroeconomics 22, 363-384] concerning the effect of different debt rules on long term economic growth. We focus on Proposition1 stating that, in some cases, using deficits to finance productive public expenditures, may raise long term economic growth. We propose an analytical proof, showing that the cases in which deficits raise the balanced growth path imply Ponzi games and are, therefore, infeasible. Consequently, using deficits to finance public investment is always detrimental to economic growth in the long-run in their model.
Lien HAL2009
Investissement public et effets non-linéaires des déficits budgétaires
Dans cet article, nous proposons un modèle théorique simple dans lequel l'impact du déficit budgétaire sur les dépenses publiques d'investissement dépend du niveau de dette publique (en pourcentage du PIB). Lorsque la dette publique est faible, l'impact du déficit est positif, car la charge de la dette peut être absorbée par une diminution des dépenses de consommation. Lorsque la dette est très élevée, en revanche, il n'est plus possible de réduire les dépenses de consommation, et l'ajustement s'opère par les dépenses d'investissement, de sorte que la relation entre déficit et dépenses publiques d'investissement devient négative. Une analyse empirique menée dans un modèle économétrique avec effets de seuil en panel sur 22 pays de l'OCDE vient confirmer cette non linéarité.
Lien HALImpôt, déficit et croissance économique : un réexamen de la courbe de Laffer
Depuis le modèle de Barro (1990), la littérature théorique met en évidence l'existence d'une relation en cloche entre impôt et croissance économique, dans l'esprit de la « courbe de Laffer ». Cependant, les évidences empiriques semblent réfuter une telle relation. Nous montrons que ce hiatus disparaît lorsque l'on prend en compte l'effet des déficits publics. En effet, l?indexation de la relation impôt-croissance par le ratio de déficit public permet de réconcilier les données avec les travaux théoriques mettant en évidence une « courbe de Laffer de croissance »
Lien HAL2008
Further Theoretical and Empirical Evidence on Money to Growth Relation
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Lien HALFurther Theoretical and Empirical Evidence on Money to Growth Relation
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Lien HALFurther Theoretical and Empirical Evidence on Money to Growth Relation
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Lien HALUne nouvelle perspective sur la relation non linéaire entre déficits budgétaires et croissance économique
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Lien HALUne nouvelle perspective sur la relation non linéaire entre déficits budgétaires et croissance économique
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Lien HALFaut-il financer l'investissement public par emprunt? Les enseignements d'un modèle de croissance endogène
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Lien HALFaut-il financer l'investissement public par emprunt? Les enseignements d'un modèle de croissance endogène
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Lien HAL2007
Un modèle simple de croissance endogène avec effet de seuil des politiques monétaire et fiscale
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Lien HALUn modèle simple de croissance endogène avec effet de seuil des politiques monétaire et fiscale
Résumé non disponible.
Lien HAL2006
Méthodes de décomposition tendance-cycle : quelques enseignements théoriques et empiriques
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Lien HAL2005
2024
How Do Natural Resource - Backed Loans Affect the Public Debt Sustainability in Developing Countries ? Empirical Evidence.
DR LEO - Working paper 2022-03
Lien HALInflation Targeting and Developing countries' Performance: Evidence from Firm-Level Data
DR LEO - Working paper 2022-05
Lien HAL2023
Fiscal institutions and the development of fiscal capacity: The case of fiscal rules
The development of fiscal capacity is widely acknowledged as an important pillar for strong state-building. However, the level of fiscal capacity remains structurally low mostly in developing countries due to a number of factors, including the lack of institutions driving governments to channel public resources to public interests or the substitution of domestic resources with external financing. Fiscal rules that limit the opportunistic use of public finances and reduce governments' appetite for debt could be a valuable tool. Therefore, in this paper, we analyze the effect of fiscal rules on fiscal capacity. Two main theoretical arguments are presented to support the possible connection between fiscal rules and the development of fiscal capacity, namely the mitigation of the extraversion theory and the development of trust between citizens and governments. Based on entropy balancing and using a sample of 71 developing countries over the period 1985-2019, we show that countries that adopt fiscal rules experience an increase in their fiscal capacity. This result, which passes a series of robustness tests, reveals some heterogeneity, notably with respect to the types of fiscal rules, the effectiveness of fiscal rules, time spent under fiscal rules, and some structural factors.
Lien HAL2021
The Perils of Fiscal Rules
This paper develops a limit-cycle-based theory of debt fluctuations through a simple endogenous growth model. Public debt and deficit are introduced by relaxing the balanced-budget rule hypothesis, and assuming a simple fiscal rule. Our main result is that fiscal rules can be destabilizing, leading to (i) multiple equilibria-four balanced-growth paths can emerge-, (ii) endogenous public debt cycles, which appear both in the short and the long run, and (iii) hysteresis phenomena arising from extreme sensitivity of changes in parameters. We also reveal that a balanced-budget rule does not preclude large aggregate fluctuations. Finally, our calibration exercise highlights that our model produces asymmetric cycles consistent with observed stylized facts.
Lien HAL2019
Increasing Returns, Balanced-Budget Rules, and Aggregate Fluctuations
In a seminal contribution, Guo and Harrison (2004, JET) showed that, under a balanced-budget rule, the neoclassical growth model exhibits saddle-path stability when the adjustment is based on wasteful public spending. The present paper challenges this result in an endogenous growth framework with non-trivial dynamics of the debt-to-GDP ratio. We show that the emergence of aggregate instability dramatically depends on the strength of social labor externalities. If the labor demand is positively sloped and steeper than the labor supply, two reachable balanced-growth paths appear-a no growth trap, and a positive growth solution-that gives birth to both local and global indeterminacy, hence aggregate instability driven by self-fulfilling beliefs (sunspots). In addition, we show that a fiscal rule such that the tax rate strongly responds to public-debt increases can remove the no-growth trap, and secure positive long-run growth. JEL classification: E62; O41
Lien HALBudget Rules, Distortionnary Taxes, and Aggregate Instability: A reappraisal
In a seminal contribution, Schmitt-Grohé and Uribe (JPE, 1997), showed that the balanced-budget rule (BBR) produces aggregate instability in an exogenous growth model with labor tax-based adjustment. The present paper challenges this result in an endogenous growth framework with a more general budget rule, involving deficit and debt in the long-run and making the BBR a special case. We show that the emergence of aggregate instability dramatically depends on the level of public spending. In particular, low public spending ensures determinacy. However, in the case of high public spending, multiplicity arises, with four potential equilibria: two high-growth BGPs, a low-growth trap, and a "catastrophic" equilibrium where the economy asymptotically collapses. In addition, when the ratio of public spending is sufficiently large, a subcritical Hopf bifurcation appears around the low-growth trap, giving rise to a homoclinic orbit going around the neighborhood of the catastrophic equilibrium. A calibration exercise confirms that these results are obtained for realistic values of parameters.
Lien HALPublic debt versus Environmental debt: What are the relevant Tradeoffs?
The article explores the relationship between public debt and environmental debt. The latter is defined as the difference between the "virgin state" which is the maximum stock of environmental quality that can be kept intact with natural regenerations and the current quality of the environment. A theoretical model of endogenous growth is built. We show that there is a unique well-determined balanced-growth path. The public debt and the environmental debt are substitute in the short-run but complementary in the long-run. Indeed, budget deficit provides additional resources to finance pollution abatement spending, but generate also unproductive expenditures (the debt burden). This hypothesis is tested on a sample of 22 countries for the period 1990-2011. The environmental debt is measured by the cumulative CO2 emissions per capita. We use panel time-series estimators which allow for heterogeneity in the slope coefficients between countries. It appears mainly that, in the long term, an increase of 100% in public debt ratio leads to an increase of 74% in cumulative CO2 per capita. In addition, this positive long-run relationship is still present at the country and the sub-sample level, despite some differences in the short-term dynamics.
Lien HALEndogenous fluctuations and the balanced-budget rule: taxes versus spending-based adjustment
The present paper develops a simple theoretical setup to examine the role of the tax-spending mix of fiscal adjustments on aggregate (in)stability in indebted economies. To this end, we build an AK endogenous growth model with public debt dynamics. If the adjustment of the government's budget constraint is based on a single instrument (taxes or public spending), the economy converges towards a high-growth path. With mixed adjustment, however, another equilibrium appears (the no-growth path) that can be locally over-determine (unstable) or under-determined (stable). A hopf bifurcation can occurs at the border between the last two cases, which leads to cyclical dynamics. We also show that global indeterminacy is likely to emerge if fiscal adjustment is mainly based on public spending. A calibration of the model shows that area of indeterminacy covers reasonable values for parameters.
Lien HAL2016
Deficit Rules and Monetization in a Growth Model with Multiplicity and Indeterminacy
In response to the Great Recession, Central Banks around the world adopted " unconven-tional " monetary policies. In particular, the Fed, and more recently the ECB, launched massive debt monetization programs. In this paper, we develop a formal analysis of the short-and long-run consequences of deficit and debt monetization, through an endoge-nous growth model in which economic growth interacts with productive public expenditure. This interaction can generate two positive balanced growth paths (BGP) in the long-run: a high BGP and a low BGP, and further, depending on the form of the CIA constraint, possible multiplicity and indeterminacy. Thus, monetizing deficits is found to be remarkably powerful. First, a large dose of monetization might allow avoiding, whenever present, BGP indeterminacy. Second, monetization always allows increasing growth and welfare along the (high) BGP, by weakening the debt burden in the long-run. Third, with a CIA on consumption only, monetization provides a rationale for deficits in the long-run: for high degrees of monetization, the impact of deficits and debts on economic growth and welfare becomes positive in the steady-state.
Lien HAL2015
Deficit Rules and Monetization in a Growth Model with Multiplicity and Indeterminacy
In response to the Great Recession, Central Banks around the world adopted " unconven-tional " monetary policies. In particular, the Fed, and more recently the ECB, launched massive debt monetization programs. In this paper, we develop a formal analysis of the short-and long-run consequences of deficit and debt monetization, through an endoge-nous growth model in which economic growth interacts with productive public expenditure. This interaction can generate two positive balanced growth paths (BGP) in the long-run: a high BGP and a low BGP, and further, depending on the form of the CIA constraint, possible multiplicity and indeterminacy. Thus, monetizing deficits is found to be remarkably powerful. First, a large dose of monetization might allow avoiding, whenever present, BGP indeterminacy. Second, monetization always allows increasing growth and welfare along the (high) BGP, by weakening the debt burden in the long-run. Third, with a CIA on consumption only, monetization provides a rationale for deficits in the long-run: for high degrees of monetization, the impact of deficits and debts on economic growth and welfare becomes positive in the steady-state.
Lien HALDeforestation and Seigniorage in Developing Countries: A Tradeoff?
Most of countries covered by natural forests are developing countries, with limited ability to levy taxes and restrained access to international credit markets; consequently, they are amenable to draw heavily on two sources of government financing, namely seigniorage and deforestation revenues. First, we develop a theoretical model emphasizing a substitution effect between seigniorage and deforestation revenues. Second, a panel-data econometric analysis over the 1990-2010 period confirms our findings. Consequently, a tighter monetary policy hastens deforestation. Third, we extend the theoretical model and show that international transfers dedicated to forest protection can upturn the positive link between tighter monetary policies and deforestation, and then discuss the relevance of this finding with respect to recent institutional arrangements.
Lien HAL2012
Is Public Capital Really Productive? A Methodological Reappraisal
We present an evaluation of the main empirical approaches used in the literature to estimate the contribution of public capital stock to growth and private factors' productivity. Based on a simple stochastic general equilibrium model, built as to reproduce the main long-run relations observed in US post-war historical data, we show that the production function approach may not be reliable to estimate this contribution. Our analysis reveals that this approach largely overestimates the public capital elasticity, given the presence of a common stochastic trend shared by all non-stationary inputs.
Lien HAL2011
Dette publique, croissance et bien-être : une perspective de long terme
Nous proposons un modèle théorique simple permettant de prendre en compte l'existence de régimes d'endettement de long terme, en accord avec les faits saillants observés en longue période. Nous nous intéressons particulièrement aux effets d'une hausse permanente de la dette publique sur la croissance à long terme, et nous montrons que ces effets, toujours négatifs (on nuls), dépendent dans leur ampleur de la variable d'ajustement à la charge de la dette dans la contrainte budgétaire de l'Etat. Enfin, nous montrons qu'au contraire des effets sur la croissance, les effets sur le bien-être à long terme d'une hausse permanente de la dette publique peuvent être positifs. Nous en déduisons l'existence d'un seuil optimal pour le ratio de dette publique au PIB.
Lien HALDeficit, Seigniorage and the Growth Laffer Curve in developing countries
The endogenous growth literature has established the existence of an inverted-U curve between taxes and economic growth, namely a Growth Laffer Curve (GLC). We develop a growth model with public investment as the engine of perpetual growth, and look for the effect of deficit, tax and money financing on economic growth. We study in particular the way fiscal and monetary policies (through deficit and seigniorage respectively) deform the GLC. An empirical section based on a panel of developing countries provides GMM-system estimators that support our theoretical conclusions.
Lien HALDisinflation against the Environment? An application to the trade-off between seigniorage and deforestation
The forest still covers an important share of land area in many developing countries and represents an important source of revenue for governments. Another major contribution to government revenues comes from printing money, namely the seigniorage. Building on a simple theoretical model where governments target inflation and aim at reducing deforestation while minimising a welfare loss function, we exhibit the potential substitution effect between seigniorage and deforestation revenues. Regressions run on a panel of developing countries show that there exists a non-negligible substitution effect between seigniorage and deforestation revenues, which is, as suggested by the theoretical model, even stronger if the endogenous character of seigniorage is taken into account. Adding variables suggested by the theoretical model as well as usual control variables in deforestation equations, do not alter the main result. As a consequence, disinflation policies as recommended by the IMF, may hasten deforestation. The model is extended to address this problem, which shows that international transfers dedicated to rainforest protection may upturn the positive correlation between tighter monetary policies and deforestation and give some additional support to REDD's advocates.
Lien HAL2008
Monetary Policy Transmission: Old Evidence and Some New Facts from Bulgaria 1/Introduction
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Lien HALInvestissement public et effets non linéaires des déficits budgétaires
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Lien HALInvestissement public et effets non linéaires des déficits budgétaires
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Lien HALThreshold Effects in Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Growth Model : Assessing the Importance of the Financial System
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Lien HALThreshold Effects in Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Growth Model : Assessing the Importance of the Financial System
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Lien HALMonetary Policy Transmission: Old Evidence and Some New Facts from Bulgaria 1/Introduction
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Lien HAL2007
Investissement public et effects non linéaires des déficits budgétaires
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Lien HALInvestissement public et effects non-linéaires des déficits budgétaires
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Lien HALLong-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs
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Lien HALLong-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transactions Costs
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Lien HAL2006
Threshold Effects in Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Simple Cash-In-Advance Endogenous Growth Model
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Lien HALThreshold Effects in Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Simple Cash-In-Advance Endogenous Growth Model
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Lien HALFinancial Repression, Tax Evasion and Long-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs
In this paper, we study maximizing long-run economic growth trade-off in monetary and fiscal policies in an endogenous growth model with transaction costs. We show that both monetary and fiscal policies are subject to threshold effects, a result that gives account of a number of recent empirical findings. Furthermore, the model shows that, to finance public expenditures, maximizing-growth government must choose relatively high seigniorage (respectively income taxation), if "tax evasion" and "financial repression" coefficients are high (respectively low). Thus, our model may explain why some governments resort to seigniorage and inflationary finance, and others rather resort to high tax-rate, as result of maximizing-growth strategies in different structural enviroments (notably concerning tax evasion and financial repression). In addition, the model allows examining how the optimal mix of government finance changes in response to different public debt contexts.
Lien HAL2005
2019
Public debt versus Environmental debt: What are the relevant Tradeoffs?
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Lien HALPublic debt versus Environmental debt: What are the relevant Tradeoffs?
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Lien HALEndogenous fluctuations and the balanced - budget rule: taxes versus spending - based adjustment
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Lien HALIncreasing Returns, Balanced-Budget Rules, and Aggregate Fluctuations
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Lien HALEndogenous fluctuations and the balanced-budget rule: taxes versus spending-based adjustment
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Lien HALEndogenous fluctuations and the balanced-budget rule: taxes versus spending-based adjustment
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Lien HALEndogenous fluctuations and the balanced-budget rule: taxes versus spending-based adjustment
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Lien HAL2009
2008
Long-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs
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Lien HALLong-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs
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Lien HALInvestissement public et effets non linéaires des déficits budgétaires
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Lien HALInvestissement public et effets non linéaires des déficits budgétaires
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Lien HALThresholds Effects in Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Simple Cash-In-Advance Endogenous Growth Model
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Lien HALThresholds Effects in Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Simple Cash-In-Advance Endogenous Growth Model
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Lien HALInvestissement public et effets non linéaires des déficits budgétaires
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Lien HALInvestissement public et effets non linéaires des déficits budgétaires
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Lien HALInvestissement public et effets non linéaires des déficits budgétaires
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Lien HALInvestissement public et effets non linéaires des déficits budgétaires
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Lien HALInvestissement public et effets non linéaires des déficits budgétaires
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Lien HALInvestissement public et effets non linéaires des déficits budgétaires
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Lien HAL2007
Investissement public et effets non linéaires des déficits budgétaires
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Lien HALInvestissement public et effets non-linéaires des déficits budgétaires
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Lien HALLong-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs
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Lien HALLong-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs
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Lien HALLong-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs
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Lien HALLong-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs
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Lien HALLong-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-OFF in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs
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Lien HALLong-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs
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Lien HALLong-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs
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Lien HALLong-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs
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Lien HAL2006
Thresholds Effects in Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Simple Cash-In-Advance Endogenous Growth Model
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Lien HALThresholds Effects in Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Simple Cash-In-Advance Endogenous Growth Model
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Lien HALThresholds Effects in Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a simple Cash-in-Advance Endogenous Growth Model
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Lien HALThreshold Effects in Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Simple Cash-in-Advance Endogenous Growth Model
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Lien HALLong-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs
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Lien HALLong-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs
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Lien HALLong-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs
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Lien HALLong-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs
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Lien HAL2005
Persistent Deficit, Growth and Indeterminacy: the Golden Rule of Public Finance Revisited
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Lien HALBorrowing to Finance Public Investment? Sense and No-Sense of the GRPF
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Lien HALBorrowing to Finance Public Investment? Sense and No-Sense of the Golden Rule of Public Finance
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Lien HALPersistent Deficits, Growth and Indeterminacy: The Golden Rule of Public Finance Revisited
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Lien HALPersistent Deficits, Endogenous Growth and Non-linear Effects of Fiscal Policy
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