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Estimating monetary policy rules for South Africa
Monetary policy in South Africa's emerging market economy, given capital account liberalization and severe constraints on fiscal policy, has the major responsability for curbing inflation and currency instability while trying to ensure sufficient growth for longer-term political stability and the ...
Floats pegs and the transmission of fiscal policy
One of the most popular pieces of wisdom in economic policy is the idea that fiscal policy is more effective in a fixed exchange rate regime or a currency union than in a flexible exchange rate regime. In this paper we revisit the theoretical foundations of the conventional wisdom on the relative ...
Balance estructural: la base de la nueva regla de política fiscal Chilena
El presente trabajo desarrolla la metodología de cálculo del balance estructural, adoptada para el sector público Chileno. El balance estructural efectúa ajustes contables, de forma que las cuentas fiscales reflejen adecuadamente el concepto de variación patrimonial neta, y aísle los cambios en la ...
Riding the roller coaster: fiscal policies of nonrenewable resource exporters in Latin America and the Caribbean
In the last decade the prices of nonrenewable resources which constitute a critical source of fiscal revenue in many Latin American and Caribbean countries recorded sharp swings correlated with economic growth developments in the world and in the region. Similar episodes in the past led to boom and ...
Optimal management of indexed and nominal debt
In standard macroeconomics, fiscal policy involves choices about expenditures, taxes, and debt issue. The different kinds of public spending may be distinguished with respect to their interactions with private decisions. For example, some public activities influence private production and some interact ...
Tipo de cambio flotante, tipo de cambio fijo y transmisión de la política fiscal
De acuerdo con el paradigma convencional, la política fiscal es más efectiva bajo un régimen cambiario fijo que con tipo de cambio flexible. En este trabajo se reconsidera la transmisión de shocks al gasto de gobierno a través de estos regímenes dentro de un modelo neokeynesiano para una economía ...
Policy biases when the monetary and fiscal authorities have different objectives
Until recently, the debate on the relationship between monetary and fiscal authorities centered on the inflationary consequences of mentary financing of the fiscal deficit. The moderately high inflation of the 1970s in some industrialized countries and, particularly, the recurring episodes of very ...
Monetary policy and dutch disease: the case of price and wage rigidity
From a theoretical point of view and as we will show the presence of both price and wage rigidities implies that to the extent that fiscal policy is unresponsive to shocks full price stability is not optimal. In this paper we study optimal monetary and exchange rate policy in a small open economy with ...
Why do countries have fiscal rules?
Professor Vittorio Corbo in whose honor this conference is organized has an outstanding academic and professional career that spans teaching research policy making and advice provided to the private sector international institutions and governments. In the latter capacity of government advisor he ...
Aspectos no ricardianos de la política fiscal en Chile
Este artículo analiza los efectos no ricardianos de los shocks al gasto fiscal en Chile. Comenzamos presentando evidencia de tales efectos basados en vectores autorregresivos. Luego mostramos que dicha evidencia puede modelarse en un modelo que contemple: (i) una fracción considerable de hogares no ...