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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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This paper examines the issue of fiscal sustainability in emerging market countries and industrial countries. We highlight the importance of the time series properties of the primary surplus and debt, and find evidence of a positive long run relationship. Consequently we emphasise, that...
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Time-inconsistency is an essential feature of many policy problems (Kydland and Prescott, 1977). This paper presents and compares three methods for computing Markov-perfect opti- mal policies in stochastic nonlinear business cycle models. The methods considered include value function iteration,...
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We study the optimal dynamics of an AK economy where population is uniformly distributed along the unit circle …
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