In this paper we present an application of the dynamic tracking games framework to 1 a monetary union. We use a small stylized nonlinear three-country macroeconomic model of a 2 monetary union to analyse the interactions between fiscal (governments) and monetary (common 3 central bank) policy makers, assuming different objective functions of these decision makers. Using 4 the OPTGAME algorithm ...

We analyze the setting of monetary and nonmonetary policies in monetary unions. We show that in these unions a time inconsistency problem in monetary policy leads to a novel type of free-rider problem in the setting of nonmonetary policies, such as labor market policy, fiscal policy, and bank regulation. The free-rider problem leads the union’s members to pursue lax nonmonetary policies that in...