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Romer, Christina D.; Romer, David H. - 2022

This paper analyzes the contributions of monetary and fiscal policy to postwar economic recoveries. We find that the Federal Reserve typically responds to downturns with prompt and large reductions in interest rates. Discretionary fiscal policy, in contrast, rarely reacts before the trough in...

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Crunch Time : Fiscal Crises and the Role of Monetary Policy

Greenlaw, David - 2013

Countries with high debt loads are vulnerable to an adverse feedback loop in which doubts by lenders lead to higher sovereign interest rates which in turn make the debt problems more severe. We analyze the recent experience of advanced economies using both econometric methods and case studies...

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The Evolution of Economic Understanding and Postwar Stabilization Policy

Romer, Christina D.; Romer, David H. - 2022

functioning of the economy and the effects of policy. We document the changes in beliefs using contemporaneous discussions of the … economy and policy by monetary and fiscal policymakers and, for the period since the late 1960s, using the Federal Reserve …'s internal forecasts. We find that policymakers' understanding of the economy has not exhibited steady improvement. Instead, the …

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Understanding the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level

Christiano, Lawrence J.; Fitzgerald, Terry J. - 2021

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Globalization, Macroeconomic Performance, and Monetary Policy

Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2010

The paper argues that many of the exaggerated claims that globalization has been an important factor in lowering inflation in recent years just do not hold up. Globalization does, however, have the potential to be stabilizing for individual economies and has been a key factor in promoting...

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Fiscal Space and the Aftermath of Financial Crises : How it Matters and Why

Romer, Christina D. - 2019

In OECD countries over the period 1980–2017, countries with lower debt-to-GDP ratios responded to financial distress with much more expansionary fiscal policy and suffered much less severe aftermaths. Two lines of evidence together suggest that the relationship between the debt ratio and the...

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Government Policy, Credit Markets and Economic Activity

Christiano, Lawrence J. - 2011

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...

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Financial Policies and the Prevention of Financial Crises in Emerging Market Countries

Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2021

This paper outlines a set of financial policies that can help make financial crises less likely in emerging market countries. To justify these policies, the paper first explains what a financial crisis is, the factors that promote a financial crisis and the dynamics of a financial crisis. It...

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Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Business Cycle Model

Chari, Varadarajan V. - 2012

This paper develops the quantitative implications of optimal fiscal policy in a business cycle model. In a stationary equilibrium the ex ante tax rate on capital income is approximately zero. There is an equivalence class of ex post capital income tax rates and bond policies that support a given...

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Taylor Rules in a Limited Participation Model

Christiano, Lawrence J.; Gust, Christopher - 2021

rules for setting the rate of interest. Rules are evaluated according to their ability to protect the economy from bad …

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