This paper studies fiscal--monetary policy interactions in an endogenous growth model with multiple assets. Under an interest-rate rule, there are two Pareto-ranked balanced growth equilibria. The E-stability principle is used to pin down an equilibrium. Interestingly, expectational...

This paper explores the link between fiscal-monetary policy interaction and deflation. The key feature of this paper is that the central bank's balance sheet is separated from the government's budget constraint. As a result, government bonds are held entirely by households, and money is supplied...

We explore the implications of adopting a Taylor-type interest-rate rule in a simple monetary growth model in which budget deficits are financed partly by unbacked government debt. To ensure uniqueness of the steady-state equilibrium, monetary policy cannot be either too "active" or too...

This paper reconsiders the link between tight money policies and inflation in the spirit of Sargent and Wallace's (1981) influential paper "Some Unpleasant Monetarist Arithmetic". A standard neoclassical model with production, capital, bonds, and return-dominated currency is used to study the...

This paper characterizes general properties of an economy that experiences deflation by investigating the long-run government budget constraint. A sufficient condition for deflation in an economy under a balanced budget is that the nominal interest rate is below the output growth rate. With a...

In this paper we reconsider the link between tight money policies and inflation in the spirit of Sargent and Wallace's (1981) influential paper, "Some unpleasant monetarist arithmetic." A standard neoclassical model with capital, bonds, and return-dominated currency is used. The potential for...