Interest Rate Bounds and Fiscal Policy

Jagjit Chadha () and Charles Nolan ()

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Abstract: When the monetary authority controls the short-term interest rate we find that under a regime of permanent (and even persistent but temporary) deficits that a strict upper bound on the feasible interest rate sequence is present. More generally, the satisfaction of the fiscal authority’s present value budget constraint in the presence of a deficit sequence, means that monetary and fiscal decisions cannot be independent. This is an important caveat to the results in McCallum (1984).

Keywords: Intertemporal macro; monetary policy and fiscal policy interactions. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E63 E52 E31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2004-10
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Forthcoming in Economics Letters

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