In 2009-10 governments around the world implemented unprecedented fiscal stimulus in order to counter the impact of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-09. This paper analyses the impact of fiscal stimulus using a dynamic open economy, overlapping generations model that allows for feedback...

This paper provides a new rationale for Uzawa preferences; instead of positing that poor people are more patient because they are poor, it posits that poor people should be more patient if they wish their living standards to catch-up with richer people. To provide a setting for this new...

This paper develops a new international monetary framework for analysing the domestic and international repercussions of China’s exchange rate policy in the context of its rapid development. This straightforward framework reveals that misalignment of the yuan against major currencies...