Abstract:
This paper studies the coordination of monetary and fiscal policy in a simple New Keynesian model. We show that, in such a setup and when the policymaker acts with commitment, it is optimal not to use fiscal policy to stabilise inflation. We illustrate this result using additively separable preferences and Greenwood-Hercowitz-Huffman (1988) preferences, and we discuss the intuition behind this result.
Citation:
Vines, D (2015), ‘DP10895 The Optimal Coordination of Fiscal and Monetary Policy in a New Keynesian Framework‘, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 10895. CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/dp10895