Recent attempts to incorporate optimal fiscal policy into NewKeynesian models subject to nominal inertia, have tended to assume that policymakers are benevolent and have access to a commitment technology. A separateliterature, on the New Political Economy, has focused on real economies...

The potential importance of fiscal policy in influencing inflation has recently been highlighted, following Woodford (1995), under the heading of the 'Fiscal Theory of the Price Level' (FTPL). Applications of this theory to open economies operating under flexible exchange rates has suggested...

The potential importance of fiscal policy in influencing inflation has recently been highlighted, following Woodford (1995), under the heading of the 'Fiscal Theory of the Price Level' (FTPL). Some authors have suggested that this theory provides a rationale for the Pact for Stability and Growth...