Time Consistency of Fiscal and Monetary Policy: A Solution
财政与货币政策的时间一致性:一种解决方案
This paper demonstrates how time consistency of the Ramsey policy -the optimal fiscal and monetary policy under commitment -can be achieved.Each government should leave its successor with a unique maturity structure for the nominal and indexed debt, such that the marginal benefit of a surprise inflation exactly balances the marginal cost.Unlike in earlier papers on the topic, the result holds for quite a general Ramsey policy, including timevarying polices with positive…