Optimal Fiscal Policy Rule for Achieving Fiscal Sustainability: A Japanese Case Study

A Taylor Rule for Fiscal Policy?

In times of rapid macroeconomic change it would seem useful for both fiscal and monetary policy to be modified frequently. This is true for monetary policy with monthly meetings of the Open Market Committee. It is not true for fiscal policy which mostly varies with the annual Congressional budget cycle. This paper proposes a feedback framework for analyzing the question of whether or not moveme...

Optimal Fiscal Policy With Oil Revenues

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 ...

1 Fiscal Flows , Fiscal Balance , and Fiscal Sustainability Richard

The search for “fiscal indicators” to provide a short-hand (and preferably quantitative) picture of the size, direction, and nature of intergovernmental finance – and, ideally, some guidance for policy designed to improve outcomes – appears to be neverending. “Fiscal balance” and “fiscal sustainability” are, for example, terms commonly heard in discussions of intergovernmental fiscal relations....

Markov-Perfect Optimal Fiscal Policy: The Case of Unbalanced Budgets∗

In most developed economies, income tax rates and government debt levels are positive and sizable. In the US, effective income tax rates have been in the order of 20%, and outstanding public debt represents about 60% of GDP. The main question we pose in this paper is: can these numbers be accounted for as the outcome of a government’s welfare maximization program in a neoclassical economy? To a...