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Macroprudential Policy : Promise and Challenges

Mendoza, Enrique G. - 2016

liquidity, news about global fundamentals, and recurrent innovation and regulatory changes in world markets, (ii) lack of …

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Escaping the Great Recession

Bianchi, Francesco - 2014

We show that policy uncertainty about how the rising public debt will be stabilized accounts for the lack of deflation in the US economy at the zero lower bound. We first estimate a Markov-switching VAR to highlight that a zero-lower-bound regime captures most of the comovements during the Great...

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Monetary/Fiscal Policy Mix and Agents' Beliefs

Bianchi, Francesco - 2014

We reinterpret post World War II US economic history using an estimated microfounded model that allows for changes in the monetary/fiscal policy mix. We find that the fiscal authority was the leading authority in the ‘60s and the ‘70s. The appointment of Volcker marked a change in the...

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Time Consistency of Fiscal and Monetary Policy : A Solution

Persson, Mats; Persson, Torsten; Svensson, Lars E. O. - 2021

This paper demonstrates how time consistency of the Ramsey policy - the optimal fiscal and monetary policy under commitment - can be achieved. Each government should leave its successor with a unique maturity structure for the nominal and indexed debt, such that the marginal benefit of a...

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Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a Liquidity Trap : The Japanese Experience 1999-2004

Iwamura, Mitsuru - 2012

escape from the liquidity trap …

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Optimal Simple and Implementable Monetary and Fiscal Rules : Expanded Version

Schmitt-Grohé, Stephanie - 2006

This paper computes welfare-maximizing monetary and fiscal policy rules in a real business cycle model augmented with sticky prices, a demand for money, taxation, and stochastic government consumption. We consider simple feedback rules whereby the nominal interest rate is set as a function of...

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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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Optimal Simple and Implementable Monetary and Fiscal Rules

Schmitt-Grohé, Stephanie; Uribe, Martín - 2021

The goal of this paper is to compute optimal monetary and fiscal policy rules in a real business cycle model augmented with sticky prices, a demand for money, taxation, and stochastic government consumption. We consider simple policy rules whereby the nominal interest rate is set as a function...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220424

International Coordination in the Design of Macroeconomic Policy Rules

Taylor, John B. - 2021

The paper examines international issues that arise in the design and evaluation of macroeconomic policy rules. It begins with a theoretical investigation of the effects of fiscal and monetary policy in a two-country rational expectations model with staggered wage and price setting and with...

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Inflation Targeting and the Liquidity Trap

McCallum, Bennett T. - 2021

This paper considers whether 'liquidity trap' issues have important bearing on the desirability of inflation targeting … perspective, a quantitative open-economy model is developed and the likelihood of encountering a liquidity trap is explored for … several policy rules. Also, it is emphasized that, if the usual interest rate instrument is immobilized by a liquidity trap …

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