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Investment Spending,Equilibrium Indeterminacy and the Interactions of Monetary and Fiscal Policy

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Thomas Lubik

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This paper investigates determinacy of equilibrium in a canonical New Keynesian model under different monetary and fiscal policy rules. It is shown that a simple monetary rule that responds aggressively to inflation is a necessary condition for equilibrium determinacy, when fiscal policy is accommodating. If there is a high degree of structural distortions in the economy, then the interesting possibility arises that both aggressive monetary and fiscal policies are required to guarantee existence. When investment adjustment costs are introduced, the monetary and fiscal policy dichotomy is in principle maintained. The determinacy region is, however, highly dependent on the degree of distortion in the economy. The more prices are sticky, and the less competitive firms are, the economy is likely to exhibit indeterminacy even if monetary policy is active.

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Paper provided by The Johns Hopkins University,Department of Economics in its series Economics Working Paper Archive with number 490.

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  4. Tommy Sveen & Lutz Weinke, 2004. "Firm-Specific Investment, Sticky Prices, and the Taylor Principle," Economics Working Papers 780, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. [Downloadable!]
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  5. Kremer, Jana, 2004. "Fiscal rules and monetary policy in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model," Discussion Paper Series 1: Economic Studies 2004,35, Deutsche Bundesbank, Research Centre. [Downloadable!]
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