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In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, the state of macroeconomic modeling and the use of macroeconomic models in policy analysis has come under heavy criticism. Macroeconomists in academia and policy institutions have been blamed for relying too much on a particular class of...
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We study alternative scenarios for exiting the post-crisis fiscal and monetary accommodation using the model of Angeloni and Faia (2010), that combines a standard DSGE framework with a fragile banking sector, suitably modified and calibrated for the euro area. Credibly announced and fast fiscal...
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the economy and prevent a more serious recession. In this study, the overall impact of a substantial increase in fiscal … that of Japan in the 1990s. Then a weak economy with risk-averse banks seemed to require some of the largest peacetime …
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stability. In this paper, we relax the assumptions underpinning the FTPL by developing a two country open economy model, where …
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operating under flexible exchange rates has suggested that, in contrast to the closed economy FTPL, insolvent fiscal policy may … FTPL by developing a two country open economy model, where each country has overlapping generations of non … stabilise the debt of another fiscal authority, and there is no requirement that these policy makers operate in the same economy …
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Political Economy, has focused on real economies where there is strategic use of policy instruments in a world of political … conflict. In this paper we combine these literatures and assume that policy is set in a New Keynesian economy by one of two …/or composition). Given the environment, policy shall be realistically constrained to be time-consistent. In a sticky-price economy …
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Recent work on optimal monetary and fiscal policy in New Keynesian models suggests that it is optimal to allow steady-state debt to follow a random walk. Leith and Wren-Lewis (2012) consider the nature of the timeinconsistency involved in such a policy and its implication for discretionary...
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We consider optimal monetary and fiscal policies in a New Keynesian model of a small open economy with sticky prices …
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to optimal monetary policy. We explore this consensus assignment in an economy subject to ‘deep’ habits at the level of … economy subject to the additional externality of deep habits and explore the ability of simple (but potentially nonlinear …
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also show that, relative to a representative agent economy tax revenues are less sensitive to the progressivity of the tax … code in our economy. This finding is due to the fact that labor supply of two earner households is less elastic (along the …
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