International coordination of fiscal policy in limiting economies

Varadarajan Chari and Patrick Kehoe

No 121, Staff Report from Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Abstract: We examine the limiting behavior of cooperative and noncooperative fiscal policies as countries? market power goes to zero. We show that these policies converge if countries raise revenues through lump-sum taxation. However, if there are unremovable domestic distortions, such as distorting taxes, there can be gains to coordination even when a single country?s policy cannot affect world prices. These results differ from the received wisdom in the optimal tariff literature. The key distinction is that, unlike in the tariff literature, the spending decisions of governments are explicitly modeled.

Keywords: International economic relations; Fiscal policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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Published in Journal of Political Economy (vol.98, n.3, June 1990, pp.617-636)

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