We study optimal fiscal policy in a small open economy (SOE) with sovereign and private default risk. The SOE's government uses linear taxation to fund exogenous expenditures and uses public debt to inter-temporally allocate tax distortions. We characterize a class of environments in which the...

In this paper we present a full characterization of the growth process in a small open economy under political economy frictions and where politicians cannot commit to debt repayment or tax promises. We study how the dynamics are affected by the curvature of the utility function, the strength of...

In this paper, we explore dierential changes in house prices across neighborhoods within a city to better understand the nature of house price dynamics across cities. First, we document in detail that there is substantial and systematic heterogeneity in house price dynamics within a city during...