The Macroeconomic Effects of War Finance in the United States

Taxes, Inflation, and Deficit Finance

Lee E. Ohanian (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

138 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-8153-6362-0 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

This book, first published in 1998, presents a quantitative investigation of the macroeconomic effects of different fiscal and monetary policies that have been used to finance wars in the US. It examines both positive and normative effects of historical government policies.

Lee E. Ohanian is Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

1. Introduction 2. The Macroeconomic Effects of Wartime Fiscal Policy in the United States 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Historical War Episodes 2.3. The Model Economy 2.4. Model Calibration and Welfare Cost Calculation 2.5. Economic Analysis of Government Policies 2.6. Summary and Conclusions 3. The Macroeconomic Effects of World War II Monetary Policy: Price Controls, Rationing, and Inflation 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Monetary Policies During US Wars and Design of Counterfactual Policy 3.3. World War II Rationing and Price Controls 3.4. The Model Economy 3.5. Calibrating the Model with Price Controls 3.6. Economic Analysis of Monetary Policies 3.7. Summary and Conclusions

Erscheinungsdatum	16.09.2019
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Library Editions: Taxation
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	260 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	0-8153-6362-1 / 0815363621
ISBN-13	978-0-8153-6362-0 / 9780815363620
Zustand	Neuware