| 词条 | Pigou effect |
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In economics, the Pigou effect is the stimulation of output and employment caused by increasing consumption due to a rise in real balances of wealth, particularly during deflation. The term was named after Arthur Cecil Pigou by Don Patinkin in 1948.[1][2][3] Real wealth was defined by Arthur Cecil Pigou as the sum of the money supply and government bonds divided by the price level. He argued that Keynes' General Theory was deficient in not specifying a link from "real balances" to current consumption and that the inclusion of such a "wealth effect" would make the economy more 'self correcting' to drops in aggregate demand than Keynes predicted. Because the effect derives from changes to the "Real Balance", this critique of Keynesianism is also called the Real Balance effect. HistoryThe Pigou effect was first popularised by Arthur Cecil Pigou in 1943, in The Classical Stationary State an article in the Economic Journal.[4] He had proposed the link from balances to consumption earlier, and Gottfried Haberler had made a similar objection the year after the General Theorys publication.[5] Following the tradition of classical economics, Pigou favoured the idea of "natural rates" to which the economy would return in most cases, although he acknowledged that sticky prices might still prevent reversion to natural output levels after a demand shock. Pigou saw the "Real Balance" effect as a mechanism to fuse Keynesian and classical models. Integration with Keynesian Aggregate DemandJohn Keynes argued with that a drop in aggregate demand could lower both employment and the price level in unison, an occurrence observed in the deflationary depression. In the IS-LM framework of Keynesian economics as formalized by John Hicks, a negative aggregate demand shock would shift the IS curve left; as a result, a simultaneously falling wage and price level would shift the LM curve right due to a rising real money supply - this is referred to as the Keynes effect. The Pigou effect would in turn counter the fall in aggregate demand, through rising current real balances raising expenditures via the Income effect, thus shifting the IS curve back towards the right. Pigou's hypothesis and the liquidity trapAn economy in a liquidity trap cannot use monetary stimulus to increase output because there is little connection between personal income and money demand. John Hicks thought that this might be another reason (along with sticky prices) for persistently high unemployment. However, the Pigou effect creates a mechanism for the economy to escape the trap:
Pigou concluded that an equilibrium with employment below the full employment rate (the classical natural rate) could only occur if prices and wages were sticky. Kalecki's criticism of the Pigou effectThe Pigou effect was criticized by Michał Kalecki because "The adjustment required would increase catastrophically the real value of debts, and would consequently lead to wholesale bankruptcy and a confidence crisis."[6] The Pigou effect and JapanIf the Pigou effect always operated strongly, the Bank of Japan's policy of near-zero nominal interest rates might have been expected to end the Japanese deflation of the 1990s sooner. Other apparent evidence against the Pigou effect from Japan may be its long period of stagnating consumer expenditure whilst prices were falling. Pigou hypothesised that falling prices would make consumers feel richer (and increase spending) but Japanese consumers tended to report that they preferred to delay purchases, expecting that prices would fall further. Government debt and the Pigou effectRobert Barro argued that due to Ricardian equivalence in the presence of a bequest motive, the public is not fooled into thinking they are richer when the government issues bonds to them, because government bond coupons must be paid from increased future taxation.[7] Therefore, he argued that at the microeconomic level, the subjective level of wealth would be lessened by a share of the debt taken on by the national government. As a consequence bonds should not be considered as part of net wealth at the macroeconomic level. This implies that there is no way for the government to create a "Pigou effect" by issuing bonds, because the aggregate level of wealth will not increase. See also
References1. ^{{Cite journal|jstor = 591|title = Price Flexibility and Full Employment|last = Patinkin|first = Don|date = September 1948|journal = The American Economic Review|doi = |pages = 543–564|volume = 38|issue = 4|authorlink = Don Patinkin}} 2. ^{{Cite journal|jstor = 1825073|title = An Asset Influence in the Labor Market|last = Hough|first = Louis|date = June 1955|journal = Journal of Political Economy|doi = 10.1086/257665|issue = 3|pages = 202–215|volume = 63}} 3. ^{{Cite journal|url = http://hope.econ.duke.edu/node/134|title = Managing the Loss: How Pigou Arrived at the Pigou Effect|last =Takami |first =Norikazu |date = April 2011|journal = HOPE Center Working Papers|accessdate = |doi = |series = }} 4. ^{{cite journal |last=Pigou |first=Arthur Cecil |author-link=Arthur Cecil Pigou |year=1943 |title=The Classical Stationary State |journal=Economic Journal |volume=53 |issue=212 |pages=343–351 |jstor= 2226394 |doi=10.2307/2226394}} 5. ^ 6. ^{{cite journal|last=Kalecki |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Kalecki |year=1944 |title=Professor Pigou on the "Classical Stationary State" A Comment. |journal=The Economic Journal |volume=54 |issue=213 |pages=131–132 |jstor= 2959845 |doi=10.2307/2959845}} 7. ^{{cite journal|last=Barro|first=Robert J.|author-link=Robert J. Barro|year=1974 |title=Are Government Bonds Net Wealth? |journal=Journal of Political Economy |volume=82 |issue=6 |pages=1095–1117 |doi=10.1086/260266 |url= http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3451399/Barro_AreGovernment.pdf?sequence=4}} External links
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