Welfare And Macroeconomic Interdependence
We develop a baseline model of monetary and fiscal transmission in interdependent economies. The welfare effects of expansionary policies are related to monopolistic supply in production and monopoly power of a country in trade. An unanticipated exchange rate depreciation can be beggar-thyself rather than beggar-thy-neighbor, as gains in domestic output are offset by deteriorating terms of trade. Smaller and more open economies are more prone to suffer from inflationary shocks. Larger economies benefit from moderate demand-led expansions, but may be worse off if policy-makers attempt to close the output gap. Fiscal shocks are generally beggar-thy-neighbor in the long run; in the short run they raise domestic demand at given terms of trade, thus reducing the welfare benefits from monetary expansions. Analytical tractability makes our model uniquely suitable as a starting point to approach the recent "new open-economy macroeconomic" literature. © 2001 the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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2001
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Authors: | Corsetti, Giancarlo ; Pesenti, Paolo |
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics. - MIT Press. - Vol. 116.2001, 2, p. 421-445
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MIT Press |
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