Fiscal policy and the duration of financial crises

Fiscal Policy and Financial Markets*

We examine the effect of fiscal policy on sovereign risk spreads and investigate whether the interaction of fiscal variables with political institutions affect financial markets. Using panel data from emerging market countries, we find that revenue-based adjustment lowers spreads more than spending-based adjustment. Financial markets also react to the composition of spending. Cuts in current sp...

Fiscal policy, unemployment insurance, and financial crises in a model of growth and distribution

Fiscal policy, banks and the financial crisis

This paper studies the effectiveness of Euro Area (EA) fiscal policy, during the recent financial crisis, using an estimated New Keynesian model with a bank. A key dimension of policy in the crisis was massive government support for banks—that dimension has so far received little attention in the macroeconomics literature. We use the estimated model to analyze the effects of bank asset losses, ...

Financial Crises: Prevention, Correction, and Monetary Policy

The financial crisis that surfaced in 2007 has stressed the need to identify the ultimate sources of the incentives that were behind the preceding credit and housing bubbles. To lower the likelihood of future financial collapses, prudent economic policies as well as an adequate regulatory and supervisory framework for financial institutions are required. Monetary policy, in turn, should be dire...

Monetary Policy, Fiscal Policy, and the Efficiency of Our Financial System: Lessons from the Financial Crisis

I am enormously grateful to Rich Clarida and Jeff Fuhrer for their kind and thoughtful initiative, first in conceiving the idea for this conference and then in organizing it so successfully; to Eric Rosengren and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston for the marvelous hospitality we have all enjoyed these past two days; to the many fine economists who devoted their valuable time to writing papers ...