The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of the 2007 financial tsunami on the Taiwanese financial market. We find that, although significant for banks, security firms, and insurance companies, the effect was relatively lower if compared with that in Europe and the United...

The double dividend effect comes in many forms but, in a general sense, it is the notion that both the state of the environment and the employment level of the country can be improved with a specifically designed fiscal package that incorporates a carbon tax of some form but has a neutral effect...

Should independent monetary and fiscal policies coordinate their actions and/or targets? To examine this question the paper considers a simple reduced-form model in which monetary and fiscal policies are formally independent, but still interdependent—through their mutual spillovers. The...

This paper surveys the link between imperfect competition and the effects of fiscal policy on output, employment and welfare. We examine static and dynamic models, with and without entry under a variety of assumptions using a common analytical framework. We find that in general there is a robust...

Remarks at Queens Chamber of Commerce and Queens Economic Development Corporation, Flushing, New York City.

Despite U.S. fiscal problems, the Fed appears to still retain excellent inflation credibility with financial markets… Although confidence in the Fed might explain the quiescence of inflation expectations, the structure of U.S. government debt may be more important… [I]nflating away the U.S....

Spain’s government has introduced ambitious consolidation measures, which should yield a sizeable improvement in discretionary fiscal efforts. Should budgetary outcomes fall short of targets, the government should stand ready to introduce further measures, as announced. Such measures could...

This note briefly describes the merits and limitations of the national accounts, e.g. GDP per capita is a simple measure of material welfare, but not a comprehensive measure of welfare.