This paper studies the interdependence between fiscal and monetary policy in a DSGE model with sticky prices and non-zero trend inflation. We characterize the fiscal and monetary policies by a rule whereby a given fraction k of the government debt must be backed by the discounted value of...

In this paper, we model the interaction of inflation with the tax on nominal capital gains, examining the contribution of this interaction to aggregate fluctuations. Our innovation is to combine monetary policy shocks with non-indexed taxes in a model in which the central bank implements policy...

The incidence and efficiency losses of taxes have usually been analyzed in isolation from public expenditures. This negligence of the expenditure side may imply a serious misperception of the effects of marginal tax rates. The reason is that part of the marginal tax may in fact be a payment for...