Strategic interactions between an independent central bank and a myopic government with government debt / prepared by Sven Jari Stehn and David Vines.

We analyse optimal discretionary games between a benevolent central bank and a myopic government in a New Keynesian model. First, when lump-sum taxes are available and public debt is absent, we show that a Nash game results in too much government spending and excessively high interest rates, while f...

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Main Authors: Stehn, Sven Jari (Author), Vines, David (Author)
Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Department
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Washington, D.C.?] : International Monetary Fund, ©2009.
©2008
Series:IMF working paper ; WP/08/164.
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