United we stand: on the macroeconomics of a Fiscalvunion

Neck, Reinhard and Blueschke, Dmitri,(2016), United we stand: on the macroeconomics of a Fiscalvunion. , Empirica, UNSPECIFIED

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Abstract

In this paper, we apply dynamic tracking games to macroeconomic policy making in a monetary union. We use a small stylized nonlinear two-country macroeconomic model of a monetary union for analyzing the interactions between two fiscal (governments: ‘‘core’’ and ‘‘periphery’’) and one monetary (central bank) policy makers, assuming different objective functions of these decision makers. Using the OPTGAME algorithm, we calculate numerical solutions for cooperative (Pareto optimal) and non-cooperative games (feedback Nash). We show how the policy makers react to adverse demand shocks. We investigate the consequences of three scenarios: decentralized fiscal policies controlled by independent governments (the present situation), centralized fiscal policy (a fiscal union) with an independent central bank (pure fiscal union), and a fully centralized monetary and fiscal union. For the latter two scenarios, we demonstrate the importance of different assumptions about the joint objective function corresponding to different weights for the two governments in the design of the common fiscal policy. We show that a fiscal union with weights corresponding to the number of states in each of the blocs gives better results than non-cooperative policy making. When one bloc dominates the fiscal union, decentralized policies yield lower overall losses than the pure fiscal union and the monetary and fiscal union.
Keywords : Dynamic game,Feedback Nash equilibrium,Pareto solution, Monetary union,Fiscal union,Macroeconomics,Public debt, UNSPECIFIED
Journal or Publication Title: Empirica
Volume: 43
Number: UNSPECIFIED
Item Type: Article
Subjects: Ekonomi Pembangunan
Depositing User: Elok Inajati
Date Deposited: 20 Dec 2019 04:36
Last Modified: 20 Dec 2019 04:36
URI: https://repofeb.undip.ac.id/id/eprint/542

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