Monetary-Fiscal Interactions and the Euro Area's Malaise

45 Pages Posted: 8 May 2017

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Marek Jarocinski

European Central Bank (ECB)

Bartosz Maćkowiak

European Central Bank (ECB)

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Date Written: May 2017

Abstract

When monetary and fiscal policy are conducted as in the euro area, output, inflation, and government bond default premia are indeterminate according to a standard general equilibrium model with sticky prices extended to include defaultable public debt.

With sunspots, the model mimics the recent euro area data. We specify an alternative configuration of monetary and fiscal policy, with a non-defaultable eurobond. If this policy arrangement had been in place since the onset of the Great Recession, output could have been much higher than in the data with inflation in line with the ECB's objective.

Keywords: fiscal theory of the price level, eurobond, self-ful lfiling expectations, zero lower bound

JEL Classification: E31, E32, E63

Suggested Citation

Jarocinski, Marek and Maćkowiak, Bartosz, Monetary-Fiscal Interactions and the Euro Area's Malaise (May 2017). CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12020, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2964843

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Bartosz Maćkowiak

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Germany

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