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Record Nr.

UNINA9910960623503321

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

9786612841156

9781462331581

1462331580

9781282841154

1282841157

9781451985269

1451985266

9781451870220

1451870221

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

Banking

Banks and Banking

Banks and banking

Banks

Debt Management

Debt

Debts, Public

Deflation

Depository Institutions

Expenditure

Expenditures, Public

Fiscal Policy

Fiscal policy

Inflation

Macroeconomics



Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General

Price Level

Prices

Public debt

Public finance & taxation

Public Finance

Sovereign Debt

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.