Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/74029 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 130.2005
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
We generalize some recent results developed in static policy games with multiple players, to a dynamic context. We find that the classical theory of economic policy can be usefully applied to a strategic context of difference games: if one player satisfies the Golden Rule, then either all other playersÂ’ policies are ineffective with respect to the dynamic target variables shared with that player; or no Nash Feedback Equilibrium can exist, unless they all share target values for those variables. We extend those results to the case where there are also non-dynamic targets, to show that policy effectiveness (a Nash equilibrium) can continue to exist if some players satisfy the Golden Rule but target values differ between players in the non-dynamic targets. We demonstrate the practical importance of these results by showing how policy effectiveness (a policy equilibrium) can appear or disappear with small variations in the expectations process or policy rule in a widely used model of monetary policy.
Subjects: 
Policy games
Policy ineffectiveness
Static controllability
Existence of equilibria
Nash feedback equilibrium
JEL: 
C72
E52
E61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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