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Fiscal Policy and Optimal Monetary Rules in a non Ricardian Economy

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Jean-Pascal Benassy (CEPREMAP)

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We study in this article how the conduct of fiscal policy interacts with the choice of oprimal monetary rules by a central bank. We consider a non Ricardian model with nondistortionary fiscal policyt, and compare two policy packages, one where fiscal and monetary policy are simultaneously optimized, and one where the monetary policy is optimized under a given fiscal policy. We find a number of results that would not appear in the traditional Ricardian framework: (a) the optimal monetary rule may be activist when fiscal policy is kept constant, whereas it is not when combined with optimal fiscal policy; (b) combining optimally fiscal and monetary policies may lead to far superior outcomes, even when, following Sargent and Wallace (1975), government is allowed to react to much less information. (Copyright: Elsevier)

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Volume (Year): 6 (2003)
Issue (Month): 3 (July)
Pages: 498-512
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Keywords: Monetary policy rules; fiscal policy; interest rate rules; optimal policy; nominal rigidities.;

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E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
E63 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Comparative or Joint Analysis of Fiscal and Monetary Policy; Stabilization

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