Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/19146 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1682
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We assess the role of national fiscal policies, as automatic stabilizers, within a monetary union. We use a two-country New Keynesian DGE model which incorporates non-Ricardian consumers (as in Gal? et al. 2004) and a home bias in the composition of national consumption bundles. We find that fiscal policies stabilize the aggregate economy but, in some cases, generate conflicting views among national policymakers. Finally, model determinacy requires that national fiscal feedbacks on debt accumulation be designed with reference to the debt dynamics of the entire monetary union. This is in sharp contrast with the "Brussels consensus" based on the view that the ECB alone should stabilize the union-wide economy and national fiscal policies should react to idiosyncratic shocks and to national debt levels.
JEL: 
E58
E63
E62
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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