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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818148203321

Autore

Stehn Sven Jari

Titolo

Strategic Interactions between an Independent Central Bank and a Myopic Government with Government Debt / / Sven Jari Stehn, David Vines

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-4623-3158-0

9786612841156

1-282-84115-7

1-4519-8526-6

1-4518-7022-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (40 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

IMF working paper ; ; WP/08/164

Altri autori (Persone)

VinesDavid

Disciplina

336.39

Soggetti

Expenditures, Public - Econometric models

Fiscal policy - Econometric models

Banks and banking, Central - Econometric models

Debts, Public - Econometric models

Monetary policy - Econometric models

Banks and Banking

Inflation

Public Finance

Price Level

Deflation

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General

Fiscal Policy

Debt

Debt Management

Sovereign Debt

Banks

Depository Institutions

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

Macroeconomics

Public finance & taxation

Banking

Expenditure

Fiscal policy



Public debt

Prices

Expenditures, Public

Debts, Public

Banks and banking

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; I. Introduction; II. The Model; A. Consumers; B. Price Setting; C. Aggregate Demand and Fiscal Policy; D. The System; E. Social Welfare; F. Policy Objectives; G. Calibration; III.Solving for Optimal Policy; A. Cooperative Policy; B. Non-Cooperative Policy under Discretion; Tables; 1. Optimal policy simulations for a transitory cost-push shock; IV.Optimal Policy when Lump-Sum Taxes are Available; A. Cooperative Policy; 1. Commitment; Figures; 1. Dynamic responses to a transitory cost-push shock under optimal policy. .; 2. Discretion

Sommario/riassunto

We analyse optimal discretionary games between a benevolent central bank and a myopic government in a New Keynesian model. First, when lump-sum taxes are available and public debt is absent, we show that a Nash game results in too much government spending and excessively high interest rates, while fiscal leadership reinstates the cooperative outcome under discretion. Second, we show that this familiar result breaks down when lump-sum taxes are unavailable. With government debt, the Nash equilibrium still entails too much public spending but leads to lower interest rates than the cooperative policy, because debt has to be adjusted back to its pre-shock level to ensure time consistency. A setup of fiscal leadership does not avoid this socially costly outcome. Imposing a debt penalty onto the myopic government under either Nash or fiscal leadership raises welfare substantially, while appointing a conservative central bank is less effective.