Flexible inflation targeting has been advocated as a practical approach to the implementation of an optimal state-contingent monetary policy, but theoretical expositions reaching this conclusion have typically abstracted from the fiscal consequences of monetary policy. Here we extend the standard theory by considering the character of optimal monetary policy under a variety of assumptions about...

Control on regional government budgets is important in a monetary union as lower tiers of government have fewer incentives to consolidate debt. According to the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level; unsustainable non-Ricardian fiscal policies eventually force monetary policy to adjust. Hence, uncoordinated and non-regulated regional fiscal policies would therefore threaten price stability for the m...

This paper studies how the effects of monetary and fiscal policy vary depending on business cycle phase. It shows that in a medium-scale DSGE model, estimated US data, has stronger impact economy downturns booms. Labor capital income taxes display similar patterns. Government expenditure shocks consumption tax shocks, contrary, have output depressions recoveries. The also accounting for source ...

I study how the general and specific details of a micro founded monetary framework affect the determination of policy when the government has limited commitment. The conduct of policy depends on the interaction between the incentive to smooth distortions intertemporally and a time-consistency problem. In equilibrium, fiscal and monetary policies are distortionary, but long-run policy is not aff...

This paper explores the constraints imposed by expectations formation on the effectiveness of stabilization policy. Agents have incomplete information about the economic environment and form beliefs by extrapolating from observed patterns in historical data. Regimes with Ricardian fiscal policy (as in the standard account of monetary policy design) and also non-Ricardian fiscal policy are consi...

The objective of this study is to verify the dynamics between fiscal policy, measured by public debt, and monetary policy, measured by a reaction function of a central bank. Changes in monetary policies due to deviations from their targets always generate fiscal impacts. We examine two policy reaction functions: the first related to inflation targets and the second related to economic growth ta...