This paper specifi…es determinacy regions in the parameter space of monetary and …fiscal policy interactions in economies with …finance and tax distortions. It shows that the initial valuation of government debt is the …fixed point of a continuous mapping that takes a closed interval on the...

This paper discusses monetary and fiscal interactions in fiscal stress with no outright default. Two distortions prevail in the economy: income taxes and liquidity constraints. Possible obstructions to fiscal policy include: a ceiling on the equilibrium Debt-to-GDP ratio; zero elasticity of tax...