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Stabilization constraints from different-average public debt levels in a Monetary Union with country-size asymmetry
| dc.contributor.author | Machado, Celsa Maria de Carvalho | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ribeiro, Ana Paula | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-08-06T13:48:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-08-06T13:48:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In the sequence of the recent financial and economic crisis, the recent public debt accumulation is expected to hamper considerably business cycle stabilization, by enlarging the budgetary consequences of the shocks. This paper analyses how the average level of public debt in a monetary union shapes optimal discretionary fiscal and monetary stabilization policies and affects stabilization welfare. We use a two-country micro-founded New-Keynesian model, where a benevolent central bank and the fiscal authorities play discretionary policy games under different union-average debt-constrained scenarios. We find that high debt levels shift monetary policy assignment from inflation to debt stabilization, making cooperation welfare superior to noncooperation. Moreover, when average debt is too high, welfare moves directly (inversely) with debt-to-output ratios for the union and the large country (small country) under cooperation. However, under non-cooperation, higher average debt levels benefit only the large country. | por |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/623 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | por |
| dc.publisher | Instituto Politécnico do Porto. Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto | por |
| dc.relation | E52; E61; E62; E63 | por |
| dc.subject | Asymmetric countries | por |
| dc.subject | Monetary union | por |
| dc.subject | Optimal fiscal and monetary policies | por |
| dc.title | Stabilization constraints from different-average public debt levels in a Monetary Union with country-size asymmetry | por |
| dc.type | conference object | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.conferencePlace | Ponta Delgada | por |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | por |
| rcaap.type | conferenceObject | por |
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