In this paper we develop an endogenous growth model with market regulations on explicitly modeled financial intermediaries to examine the effects of alternative government financing schemes on growth, inflation, and welfare. We find that in the presence of binding legal reserve requirements, a...

This paper presents the primary institutions and economic policies that have led to Chile’s remarkable record of stability and growth over the past twenty years. The core of this policy stance is the combination of fiscal discipline and an open trade policy regime, together with carefully...

This paper reviews some inflationary and growth claims surrounding fiscal and monetary policy interactions. We tie the fiscal and monetary policies via the government budget constraint in an endogenous growth model where financial intermediaries are explicitly modeled. A spatial separation...