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Leeper, Eric M. - 2011

Aging populations in advanced economies are placing ever-increasing demands on government spending in the form of old-age benefits. Economies that have promised substantially more benefits than they have made provision to finance are heading into a prolonged era of fiscal stress. Unresolved...

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Inflation's Role in Optimal Monetary-Fiscal Policy

Leeper, Eric M. - 2013

We study how the maturity structure of nominal government debt affects optimal monetary and fiscal policy decisions and equilibrium outcomes in the presence of distortionary taxes and sticky prices. Key findings are: (1) there is always a role for current and future inflation innovations to...

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Understanding Inflation as a Joint Monetary-Fiscal Phenomenon

Leeper, Eric M. - 2016

We develop the theory of price-level determination in a range of models using both ad hoc policy rules and jointly …

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Anchoring Fiscal Expectations

Leeper, Eric M. - 2010

In this lecture, I argue that there are remarkable parallels between how monetary and fiscal policies operate on the macro economy and that these parallels are sufficient to lead us to think about transforming fiscal policy and fiscal institutions as many countries have transformed monetary...

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Monetary-Fiscal Policy Interactions and the Price Level : Background and Beyond

Leeper, Eric M. - 2005

The paper presents the fiscal theory of the price level in a variety of models, including endowment economies with lump …-sum taxes and production economies with proportional income taxes. We offer a microeconomic perspective on the fiscal theory by … level. Under certain assumptions on monetary and fiscal behavior, the revaluation effect reflects the fiscal theory …

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What Has Financed Government Debt?

Chung, Hess - 2010

Dynamic rational expectations models imply that the real value of debt in the hands of the public must be equal to the expected present-value of surpluses. We impose this equilibrium condition on an identified VAR and characterize the way in which the present-value support of debt varies across...

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Should Central Banks Care About Fiscal Rules?

Leeper, Eric M. - 2016

This essay aims to explain the nature of monetary and fiscal policy interactions and how those interactions could inform the fiscal rules that countries choose to follow. It makes two points: (1) monetary policy control of inflation requires appropriate fiscal backing; (2) European fiscal...

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Time Consistency and Free-Riding in a Monetary Union

Chari, Varadarajan V.; Kehoe, Patrick J. - 2021

We analyze the setting of monetary and nonmonetary policies in monetary unions. We show that in these unions a time inconsistency problem in monetary policy leads to a novel type of free- rider problem in the setting of nonmonetary policies, such as labor market policy, fiscal policy, and bank...

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On the Desirability of Fiscal Constraints in a Monetary Union

Chari, Varadarajan V.; Kehoe, Patrick J. - 2021

The desirability of fiscal constraints in monetary unions depends critically on whether the monetary authority can commit to follow its policies. If it can commit, then debt constraints can only impose costs. If it cannot commit, then fiscal policy has a free-rider problem, and debt constraints...

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Fluctuating Macro Policies and the Fiscal Theory

Davig, Troy; Leeper, Eric M. - 2021

articulated by the fiscal theory of the price level. The paper quantifies that mechanism and finds it to be important in U.S. data …

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