Investigating Fiscal and Monetary Policy Coordination in Iran's Economy: TVP-Reaction Function

Policy Games: Coordination and Independence in Monetary and Fiscal Policies

No ONE WOULD dream of designing the human anatomy by disconnecting the controls of the left and right sides of the body. Yet, for the most important economic controls in a modern economy, monetary and fiscal policies, economists today generally endorse the separation of powers as a way of optimizing noninflationary growth. What are the costs and benefits of coordination and independence in macr...

2 Issues in the Coordination of Monetary and Fiscal Policy

Now, as often in the past, there are complaints from all quarters about the lack of coordination between monetary and fiscal policy. Indeed, the feeling that monetary and fiscal policies are acting at cross purposes is quite prevalent. This attitude, I think, reflects dissatisfaction with the current mix of expansionary fiscal policy and contractionary monetary policy, which pushes aggregate de...

Welfare Improving Coordination of Fiscal and Monetary Policy

The paper considers a simple model in which monetary and …scal policies are formally independent, but still interdependent through spillovers of macroeconomic outcomes. It shows that the average equilibrium levels of in‡ation, de…cit, debt, and output depend on the two policies’ (i) potency (elasticity of output with respect to the policy instruments); (ii) ambition (the level of their output t...

Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy

We study optimal fiscal and monetary policy in an environment where explicit frictions give rise to valued money, making money essential in the sense that it expands the set of feasible trades. Our main results are in stark contrast to the prescriptions of earlier flexible-price Ramsey models. The two most important findings that emerge from our work are that the Friedman Rule is typically not ...

Time-Varying Monetary Policy Reaction Function: The Case of Iran