Understanding inflation as a joint monetary–fiscal phenomenon

EM Leeper, C Leith - Handbook of macroeconomics, 2016 - Elsevier
We develop the theory of price-level determination in a range of models using both ad hoc
policy rules and jointly optimal monetary and fiscal policies and discuss empirical issues that …

Can central banks do the unpleasant job that governments should do?

V Dimakopoulou, G Economides… - European Economic …, 2024 - Elsevier
We investigate what happens when the fiscal authorities do not react to rising public debt so
that the unpleasant task of fiscal sustainability falls upon the Central Bank (CB). In particular …

The macroeconomic effects of monetary policy shocks under fiscal rules constrained by public debt sustainability

MAFH Cavalcanti, L Vereda, RB Doctors, FC Lima… - Economic …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper studies the macroeconomic effects of monetary policy shocks when fiscal rules
are constrained to ensure public debt sustainability. In such an economy, the rise in the …

Fiscal consolidation and its cross-country effects

A Philippopoulos, P Varthalitis, V Vassilatos - Journal of Economic …, 2017 - Elsevier
We build a new Keynesian DSGE model consisting of two heterogeneous countries in a
monetary union. We study how public debt consolidation in a country with high debt (like …

Fiscal consolidation in an open economy with sovereign premia and without monetary policy independence

A Philippopoulos, P Varthalitis… - International Journal of …, 2017 - eprints.gla.ac.uk
We welfare rank various tax-spending-debt policies in a New Keynesian model of a small
open economy featuring sovereign interest-rate premia and loss of monetary policy …

Optimal fiscal and monetary policy action in a closed economy

A Philippopoulos, P Varthalitis, V Vassilatos - Economic Modelling, 2015 - Elsevier
We study optimized monetary and fiscal feedback policy rules. The setup is a New
Keynesian DSGE model of a closed economy which is solved numerically using common …

Small assumptions (can) have a large bearing: evaluating pension system reforms with OLG models

M Bielecki, K Goraus, J Hagemejer, K Makarski… - Economic …, 2015 - Elsevier
The objective of this paper is to inquire the consequences of some simplifying assumptions
typically made in the overlapping generations (OLG) models of pension systems and …

The effectiveness of government debt for demand management: Sensitivity to monetary policy rules

G Ascari, N Rankin - Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2013 - Elsevier
We construct a staggered-price dynamic general equilibrium model with overlapping
generations based on uncertain lifetimes. Price stickiness plus lack of Ricardian …

Inflation targeting monetary and fiscal policies in a two-country stock–flow-consistent model

M Greenwood-Nimmo - Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2014 - academic.oup.com
This paper develops a simple two-country stock–flow-consistent model based on that of
Godley and Lavoie. In order to motivate the use of stabilisation policies, persistent …

Taylor rules in the open economy

C Leith, S Wren-Lewis - European Economic Review, 2009 - Elsevier
Taylor rules, which link short-term interest rates to fluctuations in inflation and output, have
been shown to be a good guide (both positively and normatively) to the conduct of monetary …