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Anticipated Ramsey reforms and the uniform taxation principle: the role of international financial markets

Schmitt-Grohé, Stephanie; Uribe, Martín - 2003

This paper studies the role of asset-market completeness for the properties of optimal fiscal and monetary policy. A suitable framework for this purpose is the small open economy with complete international asset markets. For in this environment changes in policy represent country-specific risk...

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Implicit tax co-ordination under repeated policy interactions

Catenaro, Marco; Vidal, Jean-Pierre - 2003

In the context of a stylised game theoretical framework of capital tax competition, we show that when repeated policy interactions are associated to a systematic punishment of the deviating policymaker, a co-ordinated outcome can be the solution to the non co-operative tax game. This result...

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On prosperity and posterity: the need for fiscal discipline in a monetary union

Detken, Carsten; Gaspar, Vítor; Winkler, Bernhard - 2004

We show how in a Blanchard-Yaari, overlapping generations framework, perfect substitutability of government bonds in Monetary Union tempts governments to exploit the enlarged common pool of savings. In Nash equilibrium all governments increase their bond financed transfers to current generations...

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Optimal fiscal and monetary policy in a medium-scale macroeconomic model

Schmitt-Grohé, Stephanie; Uribe, Martín - 2006

In this paper, we study Ramsey-optimal fiscal and monetary policy in a mediumscale model of the U.S. business cycle. The model features a rich array of real and nominal rigidities that have been identified in the recent empirical literature as salient in explaining observed aggregate...

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Central bank communication on fiscal policy

Allard, Julien; Catenaro, Marco; Vidal, Jean-Pierre; … - 2012

While the established literature on central bank communication has traditionally dealt with communication of monetary policy messages to financial markets and the wider public, central bank communication on fiscal policy has so far received little attention. This paper empirically reviews the...

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Identifying excessive credit growth and leverage

Alessi, Lucia; Detken, Carsten - 2014

to activate macroprudential tools targeting excessive credit growth and leverage. To robustly select the key indicators … using credit to GDP gaps, credit to GDP ratios and credit growth rates, as well as real estate variables in addition to a …

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Central Bank Communication on Fiscal Policy

Allard, Julien - 2012

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Identifying Excessive Credit Growth and Leverage

Alessi, Lucia - 2014

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Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy in a Medium-Scale Macroeconomic Model

Schmitt-Grohé, Stephanie; Uribe, Martín - 2021

In this paper, we study Ramsey-optimal fiscal and monetary policy in a medium-scale model of the U.S. business cycle. The model features a rich array of real and nominal rigidities that have been identified in the recent empirical literature as salient in explaining observed aggregate...

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Public pensions and growth

Lambrecht, Stéphane; Michel, Philippe; Vidal, Jean-Pierre - 2001

This paper investigates the relationship between the size of an unfunded public pension system and economic growth in … argument of parental utility. Unfunded public pensions can promote growth when families face liquidity constraints preventing … there is no case for unfunded public pensions in economies where bequests are operative. By contrast, there exists a growth …

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