Obstacles to International Macroeconomic Policy Coordination

International Coordination in the Design of Macroeconomic Policy Rules

The paper examines international issues that arise in the design and evaluation of macroeconomic policy rules. It begins with a theoretical investigation of the effects of fiscal and monetary policy in a two-country rational expectations model with staggered wage and price setting and with perfect capital mobility. The results indicate that with the appropriate choice of policies and with flexi...

International Coordination of Macroeconomic Policies: A Welfare Analysis

Dynamic Game Theory and Models of International Macroeconomic Policy

In this paper, we provide a survey of dynamic game theory with special emphasis on past and possible future applications to problems of international economic policy making, where we concentrate on macroeconomic and stabilization policy problems. First, the paper gives a brief introduction to the theory of dynamic games. Next, we show by example that dynamic game theory can provide insights int...

Oil Supply Shocks and International Policy Coordination

This paper examines the value of international cooperation in an oil supply disruption. The perspective is that of oil-importing countries; since the oil market is integrated internationally, the actions of one have spillover effects on the others. We focus on bulTer stock policies, with each player maximizing the present value of national income less the cost of operating the stockpile program...

Macroprudential Policy Coordination with International Capital Flows

We theoretically illustrate how macroprudential policy spillovers through international capital flows can lead to uncoordinated policy choices that are tighter than would occur with coordination. We consider a symmetric two-country macro model in which countries have limited ability to issue state-contingent contracts in international markets. Accordingly, output endogenously depends on the rel...