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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810968103321

Autore

Adler Gustavo

Titolo

Original Sin and Procylical Fiscal Policy : : Two Sides of the Same Coin? / / Gustavo Adler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2008

ISBN

1-4623-2653-6

1-4527-5210-9

1-4518-7067-1

1-282-84160-2

9786612841606

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (29 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

IMF working paper ; ; WP/08/209

Disciplina

336.3015195

Soggetti

Fiscal policy - Econometric models

Business cycles - Econometric models

Financial crises - Econometric models

Macroeconomics

Money and Monetary Policy

Public Finance

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General

Debt

Debt Management

Sovereign Debt

Fiscal Policy

Monetary Systems

Standards

Regimes

Government and the Monetary System

Payment Systems

Macroeconomics: Consumption

Saving

Wealth

Public finance & taxation

Monetary economics

Expenditure

Public debt

Fiscal policy

Currencies



Private consumption

Expenditures, Public

Debts, Public

Money

Consumption

Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Model; 2.1 Households; 2.2 Firms; 2.3 Government; 2.4 Equilibrium Path; 3. The Ramsey Problem; 3.1 The Commitment Case; 3.2 No Commitment; 4. A Stationary Economy; 5. A Temporary Shock; 6. Concluding Remarks; Table; 1; Appendix; A; References

Sommario/riassunto

The paper develops a simple model of sovereign debt where default both through direct repudiation and through inflation are possible and give rise to (endogenous) constraints on the currency composition and the level of public debt. This set up allows to show that procyclicality of fiscal policy in EMEs can arise as a by-product of the "original sin" and both can be explained by the presence of weak monetary institutions which cannot commit to price stability. The paper suggests that, as monetary institutions in EMEs strengthen, the "original sin" would fade away and the cyclical properties of fiscal policy would improve.