The Effects of Monetary and Fiscal Policy on Aggregate Demand in a Small Open Economy: An Application of the Structural Error Correction Model

October 1, 2000

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Tetsuya Konuki. The Effects of Monetary and Fiscal Policy on Aggregate Demand in a Small Open Economy: An Application of the Structural Error Correction Model, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2000) accessed December 22, 2024

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Summary

This paper empirically analyzes the short-run effects of monetary and fiscal policy on aggregate demand, using the two-step structural error correction method. This method has an advantage over the standard reduced-form error correction method in providing a meaningful interpretation for impulse responses. The results are in sharp contrast to those of the traditional Mundell-Fleming and Dornbusch models: after the monetary (fiscal) policy is relaxed, the home currency depreciates (appreciates) for a substantial period of time, and the aggregate demand first expands (contracts) then gradually returns toward its original path.

Subject: Demand for money, Econometric models, Exchange rates, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stimulus, Foreign exchange, Money, Real exchange rates

Keywords: Aggregate demand, Aggregate demand function, Aggregate demand specification, Aggregate demand to monetary and fiscal policy shock, Demand for money, Equation method, Exchange rates, Expansionary monetary policy shock, Fiscal policy, Fiscal policy disturbance, Fiscal stimulus, GMM estimation, Level of significance, Magnifying depreciation, Monetary and fiscal policy, Money demand shock, Nominal exchange rate, Open economy, Phillips-curve price adjustment equation, Real exchange rates, Structural error correction models, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

24
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Working Paper No. 2000/165
Stock No:

WPIEA1652000
ISBN:

9781451858044
ISSN:

1018-5941

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