Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/25409 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
CFS Working Paper No. 2004/04
Publisher: 
Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Financial Studies (CFS), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We analyze welfare maximizing monetary policy in a dynamic two-country model with price stickiness and imperfect competition. In this context, a typical terms of trade externality affects policy interaction between independent monetary authorities. Unlike the existing literature, we remain consistent to a public finance approach by an explicit consideration of all the distortions that are relevant to the Ramsey planner. This strategy entails two main advantages. First, it allows an accurate characterization of optimal policy in an economy that evolves around a steady-state which is not necessarily efficient. Second, it allows to describe a full range of alternative dynamic equilibria when price setters in both countries are completely forward-looking and households' preferences are not restricted. In this context, we study optimal policy both in the long-run and along a dynamic path, and we compare optimal commitment policy under Nash competition and under cooperation. By deriving a second order accurate solution to the policy functions, we also characterize the welfare gains from international policy cooperation.
Subjects: 
Optimal Monetary Policy
Ramsey planner
Nash equilibrium
Cooperation
sticky prices
imperfect competition
JEL: 
E52
F41
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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