This paper presents a Keynesian effective demand model that reproduces expansive or contractive effects of an expansionary fiscal policy as a function of the initial conditions of the public finances. In an economy with fiscal slack, when observed primary surplus is above the optimal fiscal...

The aim of this document is to establish the relationship between fiscal policy and the level of economic activity. On the theoretical ground, this is done using a model that links fiscal policy with economic activity, mixing the contractive and/or expansionary effects of a fiscal expansion,...

This paper is a balance of the Peruvian economic policies, taken by government in the last decade. We focus on determining, based on the available literature, whether or not this polices have improved the economic well-being of poor people. Furthermore, this balance allows us to give the agenda...

This paper presents a balance-of-payments crises model –in the line of the “firstgeneration” models– in order to estimate the moment in which the fixed exchange rate collapse occurs. In contrast to the standard literature about balance-of-payments crises –which emphasizes the role of...

Two dynamic models are developed in this essay. In both models the rate of inflation, the exchange rate variations and the rate of output growth are determined. They are different only in the treatment of exchange rate expectations. The first one includes adaptive expectations and the second one...

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macroeconomia, politica fiscal, Perú

This paper presents an intertemporal version of the Mundell-Fleming model, with free capital movements and floating exchange rate. The model includes two subsystems, one for each period that allows exchange rate, production, and interest rate expectations to be determined, under perfect...