US Monetary and Fiscal Policies - conflict or cooperation?

Xiaoshan Che, Eric M. Leepe and Campbell Leith

Working Papers from Business School - Economics, University of Glasgow

Abstract: Most of the literature estimating DSGE models for monetary policy analysis ignores fiscal policy and assumes that monetary policy follows a simple rule. In this paper we allow both fiscal and monetary policy to be described by rules and/or optimal policy which are subject to switches over time. We find that US monetary and fiscal policy have often been in conáict, and that it is relatively rare that we observe the benign policy combination of an conservative monetary policy paired with a debt stabilizing fiscal policy. In a series of counterfactuals, a conservative central bank following a time-consistent fiscal policy leader would come close to mimicking the cooperative Ramsey policy. However, if policy makers cannot credibly commit to such a regime, monetary accommodation of the prevailing fiscal regime may actually be welfare improving.

Keywords: Bayesian Estimation; interest rate rules; fiscal policy rules; optimal mone- tary policy; optimal fiscal policy; great moderation; commitment; discretion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cba, nep-dge, nep-mac and nep-mon
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Working Paper: U.S. Monetary and Fiscal Policies - Conflict or Cooperation? (2019)
Working Paper: US Monetary and Fiscal Policies - Conflict or Cooperation? (2015)
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