Showing 1 - 10 of 38
economy is depressed because some agents are deleveraging, fiscal policy is more powerful and the multiplier can be quite big …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757664
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493280
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223567
Standard discussions of flexible inflation targeting as an optimal monetary policy abstract completely from the consequences of monetary policy for the government budget. But at least some of the countries now adopting inflation targeting have substantial difficulty in controlling fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238733
We propose an integrated treatment of the problems of optimal monetary and fiscal policy, for an economy in which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218299
Analysis of quantitative easing (QE) typically focus on the recent past studying the policy's effectiveness during a financial crisis when nominal interest rates are zero. This paper examines instead the usefulness of QE in a future fiscal crisis, modeled as a situation where the fiscal outlook...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986689
What are the economic effects of an interest rate cut when an economy is in the midst of a financial crisis? Under what … ffects? We answer these questions in a general class of open economy models, where a financial crisis is modeled as a time … the traded good sector and in adjusting the rate at which that output can be used in other parts of the economy, then a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248087
We evaluate the Friedman-Schwartz hypothesis that a more accommodative monetary policy could have greatly reduced the severity of the Great Depression. To do this, we first estimate a dynamic, general equilibrium model using data from the 1920s and 1930s. Although the model includes eight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013309234
.S. economy shows that taking concerns for macroeconomic stabilization into account raises the optimal unemployment benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988499
The US government has recently conducted large scale purchases of assets and implemented policies that reduced the cost of funds to financial institutions. Arguably these policies have helped to correct credit market dysfunctions, allowing interest rate spreads to shrink and output to begin a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123690