We study second-best macroeconomic policies for open economies subject to intertemporal sustainability problems and where agents may face liquidity constraints. If the private sector has biased expectations of future incomes, fiscal policies could offset the consequent distortions, according to...

In this note I provide a notion of a credible devaluation policy in the context of the Chang and Velasco (2000) model. I show that when the long term asset is illiquid enough a flexible exchange rate policy is credible. It is also shown that there exists a non-trivial range for the liquidation...