INSULATION IMPOSSIBLE: MONETARY POLICY AND REGIONAL DEBT SPILLOVERS IN A FEDERATION

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cooper, Russell; Kempf, Hubert; Peled, Dan
• 署名单位: European University Institute; Universite Paris Saclay; Paris School of Economics; University of Haifa
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1542-4766
• DOI: 10.1111/jeea.12039
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 465-491
• 关键词: fiscal-policy; currency union; MODEL; reserves; ECONOMY; rules

摘要

This paper studies the effects of monetary policy in the presence of debt spillovers within a monetary union. When capital markets are integrated, the fiscal policy of any member country will generally influence equilibrium wages and interest rates across the whole union. We ask whether there exists a monetary policy which can offset these spillovers. Within a general class of monetary policy rules, there does not exist one that completely insulates agents in one region from fiscal policy in the other. These debt spillovers will affect welfare through two channels: intertemporal efficiency and redistribution.