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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

El fuerte aumento de la deuda pública de la Zona Euro, generado por las políticas fiscales expansivas —paquetes de estímulo económico y efectos cíclicos sobre los ingresos fiscales—, es un riesgo central presente actualmente en los mercados financieros internacionales, que causa preocupación por la ...

The fiscal developments around the global financial crisis of 2007-2009 and its aftermath are undoubtedly a major factor behind that comeback. The large fiscal stimulus packages adopted by many countries in the face of large adverse shocks have triggered an unusually heated debate among academics, ...