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Can International Policy Coordination Really Be Counterproductive?

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  • Carraro, Carlo
  • Giavazzi, Francesco

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This paper shows that international policy coordination is not counterproductive in a world where the incentive to run beggar-thy-neighbor policies internationally arises from the inefficiency that characterizes, within each country, the interaction between policymakers and private agents. The domestic inefficiency arises from the presence of nominal contracts that give central banks the power to affect real variables. In this setting we show that international cooperation belongs to the central banks' dominant strategy. The paper is motivated by a common and misleading interpretation of a paper by Rogolf `1985(, namely that international cooperation may be counterproductive in the presence of a domestic inefficiency.

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  • Carraro, Carlo & Giavazzi, Francesco, 1988. "Can International Policy Coordination Really Be Counterproductive?," CEPR Discussion Papers 258, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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    1. Thomas Willett, 1999. "Developments in the Political Economy of Policy Coordination," Open Economies Review, Springer, vol. 10(2), pages 221-253, May.
    2. Carrera, Jorge Eduardo, 1995. "Efectos precio y comercio en un area monetaria asimetrica [Price and trade effects in an asymmetric monetary area]," MPRA Paper 7844, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. van der Ploeg, F, 1990. "Capital Accumulation, Inflation and Long-run Conflict in International Objectives," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 42(3), pages 501-525, July.
    4. Carlo Carraro, 1997. "Modelling International Policy Games: Lessons from European Monetary Coordination," Empirica, Springer;Austrian Institute for Economic Research;Austrian Economic Association, vol. 24(3), pages 163-177, October.

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