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Intertemporal Budget Policies and Macroeconomic Adjustment in Indebted Open Economies
Author(s) -
Bianconi Marcelo,
Fisher Walter H.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
review of international economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.513
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1467-9396
pISSN - 0965-7576
DOI - 10.1111/roie.12100
Subject(s) - economics , budget constraint , macroeconomics , distortion (music) , small open economy , monetary economics , government budget , deficit spending , open economy , debt , government (linguistics) , fiscal policy , capital (architecture) , current account , capital expenditure , constraint (computer aided design) , finance , public finance , monetary policy , exchange rate , microeconomics , mechanical engineering , amplifier , linguistics , philosophy , history , archaeology , cmos , electronic engineering , engineering
This paper analyzes the role of government intertemporal budget policies in a growing open economy including nominal assets in the presence of an upward sloping supply of debt. This introduces transitional dynamics that influence the effects of government policy instruments on economic growth and the long term fiscal liability. It is shown that capital income taxes or a combination of tax‐cum‐expenditure or government expenditure alone can balance the long term intertemporal government budget constraint. However, those results are shown to depend critically upon the extent of distortion in capital flows brought about the upward sloping supply of debt.