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The desirability of fiscal constraints in monetary unions depends critically on whether the monetary authority can commit to follow its policies. If it can commit, then debt constraints can only impose costs. If it cannot commit, then fiscal policy has a free-rider problem, and debt constraints...
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stochastic production economy without capital. The government finances an exogenous stream of purchases by levying distortionary …
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This paper studies optimal fiscal and monetary policy
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This paper uses a New Keynesian model with banks and deposits to study the macroeconomic effects of policies that pay interest on reserves. While their effects on output and inflation are small, these policies require major adjustments in the way that the monetary authority manages the supply of...
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Macroeconomists have largely converged on method, model design, reduced-form shocks, and principles of policy advice. Our main disagreements today are about implementing the methodology. Some think New Keynesian models are ready to be used for quarter-to-quarter quantitative policy advice; we do...
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This paper characterizes analytically the adjustment of an open economy with a stock collateral constraint to … are established: (1) Adjustment to external shocks is nonlinear. In response to small negative output shocks, the economy … output shocks the economy experiences a sudden stop with debt deleveraging, trade and current account reversals, and a …
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