Monetary-Fiscal Interactions and the Euro Area's Malaise

Bartosz Maćkowiak and Marek Jarociński

No 12020, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: When monetary and fi scal policy are conducted as in the euro area, output, inflation, and government bond default premia are indeterminate according to a standard general equilibrium model with sticky prices extended to include defaultable public debt. With sunspots, the model mimics the recent euro area data. We specify an alternative con figuration of monetary and fi scal policy, with a non-defaultable eurobond. If this policy arrangement had been in place since the onset of the Great Recession, output could have been much higher than in the data with inflation in line with the ECB's objective.

Keywords: Self-ful lfiling expectations; Zero lower bound; Eurobond; Fiscal theory of the price level (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E31 E32 E63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-05
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