We build a one-period general equilibrium model with money. Equilibrium exists, and fiat money has positive value, as long as the ratio of outside money to inside money is less than the gains to trade available at autarky. We show that the nominal effects of government fiscal and monetary policy...

This paper studies how the interaction between the monetary policy regime and the degree of home bias in public consumption affects the exchange‐rate response to fiscal shocks in a generalized version of the Redux model of Obstfeld and Rogoff ([M. Obstfeld, 1995]). We show that the joint...

In this and several preceding issues of Post-Soviet Geography and Economics, we have published analyses of fiscal policy in Hungary (Kiss and Szapary, 2000), the Czech Republic (Drabek and Schneider, 2000), and Poland (Kemme and Rapacki, 2000). These analyses are based on papers presented at the...

We consider the interaction between the monetary policy of a common central bank in a monetary union, and the separate fiscal policies of the member countries. We construct a model of the Barro-Gordon type extended to many countries and countercyclical fiscal stabilization policies. Each...

This paper explores the challenges faced by developing countries and countries in transition in their attempt at reforming the inherited bureaucratic public service. The paper explores how the public sector in Croatia has managed to come this far after the turbulent years of political and...

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...