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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961804603321

Autore

Stehn Sven Jari

Titolo

Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy with Limited Asset Market Participation / / Sven Jari Stehn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

9786612843518

9781462334582

146233458X

9781452757131

1452757135

9781451872842

1451872844

9781282843516

1282843516

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (36 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Disciplina

658.8;658.834

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics) - Government policy

Fiscal policy

Capital market

Consumption

Economics

Expenditure

Expenditures, Public

Finance

Finance: General

Fiscal Policy

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Income economics

Labor

Labour

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics: Consumption

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General

Public finance & taxation

Public Finance

Real wages

Saving

Securities markets



Wages

Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General

Wealth

Ireland

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 Baseline Model; A. Households; B. Firms and Price Setting; C. Fiscal Policy; D. Aggregation and Market Clearing; E. Steady State and Linearisation; III.Equilibrium, Calibration and Determinacy; A. Equilibrium; B. Calibration; C. Determinacy; IV.Optimal Policy; Figures; 1. Determinacy in the baseline model; A. Social Welfare; B. Optimal Monetary Policy with Exogenous Fiscal Policy; C. Jointly Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy; 2. Optimal feedback coeffcients for different values of; 3. Impulse responses to a persistent cost-push shock in the baseline model

V. Extensions A. CRRA Preferences; B. Targeted Transfers; 4. Impulse responses to a persistent cost-push shock with CRRA utility, targeted transfers and equal lump-sum tax financing; C. Alternative Financing Assumptions; 5. Impulse responses to a persistent cost-push shock with government debt. .; VI.Conclusion; Appendix; A. Derivation of the Baseline Model; B. Derivation of the Social Welfare Function; C. Solving for Optimal Policy; D. Extensions; E. The 'non-Keynesian' Case; 6. Determinacy for the 'non-Keynesian case; References

Sommario/riassunto

This paper characterises the jointly optimal monetary and fiscal stabilisation policy in a new Keynesian model that allows for consumers who lacking access to asset markets consume their disposable income each period. With full asset market participation, the optimal policy relies entirely on the interest rate to stabilise cost-push shocks and government expenditure is not changed. When asset market participation is limited, there is a case for fiscal stabilisation policy. Active use of public spending raises aggregate welfare because it enables a more balanced distribution of the stabilisation burden across asset-holding and non-asset-holding consumers. The optimal response of government expenditure is sensitive to the financing scheme and whether the policymaker has access to a targeted transfer that can directly redistribute resources between consumers.