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Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy with Limited Asset Market Participation
Stehn, Sven Jari - 2009
This paper characterises the jointly optimal monetary and fiscal stabilisation policy in a new Keynesian model that allows for consumers who lacking access to asset markets consume their disposable income each period. With full asset market participation, the optimal policy relies entirely on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677807
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Cyclical Fiscal Multipliers : Policy Mix and Financial Friction Puzzle
Aligishiev, Zamid - 2025
This paper investigates dynamic relationships between U.S. government expenditure multipliers and the economy's cyclical position from 1949 to 2018 using a Time-Varying Parameter Vector Autoregression (TVP-VAR) model. We challenge the existing literature, which predominantly relies on predefined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015452218
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Fiscal and Monetary Policy During Downturns
Stehn, Sven Jari - 2009
This paper analyzes how fiscal and monetary policy typically respond during downturns in G7 countries. It evaluates whether discretionary fiscal responses to downturns are timely and temporary, and compares the response of fiscal policy to that of monetary policy. The results suggest that while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677745
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Creating Sustainable Fiscal Space for Infrastructure
Ter-Minassian, Teresa - 2008
maintaining infrastructure networks. Over the past decade, developed and developing countries have looked to fiscal rules … instruments to raise additional finance for infrastructure investment. This paper looks at the range of options for raising the … financing to meet Tanzania's infrastructure needs. It begins with a brief survey of the evidence on the relationship bet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677684
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Creating Sustainable Fiscal Space for Infrastructure : The Case of Tanzania
Ter-Minassian, Teresa - 2008
maintaining infrastructure networks. Over the past decade, developed and developing countries have looked to fiscal rules … instruments to raise additional finance for infrastructure investment. This paper looks at the range of options for raising the … financing to meet Tanzania's infrastructure needs. It begins with a brief survey of the evidence on the relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409074
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Fiscal Stimulus with Spending Reversals
Müller, Gernot - 2009
The impact of fiscal stimulus depends not only on short-term tax and spending policies, but also on expectations about offsetting measures in the future. This paper analyzes the effects of an increase in government spending under a plausible debt-stabilizing policy that links current stimulus to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677773
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Fiscal Policy and Economic Development
Mourmouras, Alex - 2008
This paper offers possible explanations for three generally observed facts about fiscal policy and development: (F1) The relative size of government increases as an economy develops, (F2) The rise in government and taxation are associated with rising or constant economic growth rates, and (F3)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677599
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Fiscal Sustainability in Remittance-Dependent Economies
Chami, Ralph - 2009
We investigate the impact of remittances on public debt sustainability and detail how the traditional debt-to-GDP ratio can be modified to create a more accurate representation of debt sustainability for a country that receives significant remittance inflows. The main result is that inclusion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677866
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Strategic Interactions between an Independent Central Bank and a Myopic Government with Government Debt
Stehn, Sven Jari - 2008
We analyse optimal discretionary games between a benevolent central bank and a myopic government in a New Keynesian model. First, when lump-sum taxes are available and public debt is absent, we show that a Nash game results in too much government spending and excessively high interest rates,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677459
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Jointly Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy Rules under Borrowing Constraints
Kumhof, Michael - 2009
We study the welfare properties of an economy where both monetary and fiscal policy follow simple rules, and where a subset of agents is borrowing constrained. The optimized fiscal rule is far more aggressive than automatic stabilizers, and stabilizes the income of borrowingconstrained agents,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677523