Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/95252 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Quaderni di Dipartimento No. 138
Publisher: 
Università degli Studi di Pavia, Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Metodi Quantitativi (EPMQ), Pavia
Abstract: 
In the light of the recent financial crisis, we investigate the effects generated by limited asset market participation on optimal monetary and fiscal policy, where monetary and fiscal authority are independent and play strategically. We find that limited asset market participation strongly affects the optimal steady state and the optimal dynamics of the different policy regimes considered. In particular: (i) both in the long run and in short run equilibrium, a greater inflation bias is optimal than in the standard representative agent economy; (ii) in response to a markup shock, fiscal policy becomes more active as the fraction of liquidity constrained agents increases; (iii) optimal discretionary policies imply welfare losses for Ricardian, while liquidity constrained consumers experience welfare gains with respect to Ramsey.
Subjects: 
liquidity constrained consumers
optimal monetary and fiscal policy
strategic interaction
inflation bias
JEL: 
E3
E5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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