Partisan fiscal policy in a monetary union : asymmetric shocks, delegation and welfare

This paper studies the impact of partisan national fiscal policy on the optimal central bank design of a two-country monetary union. In each country two parties with different preferences compete for office, their succession in power being formalized as zero-mean political shocks. These contrast wit...

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Main Author: Pina, Álvaro M. (author)
Format: workingPaper
Language:eng
Published: 2021
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/22740
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:www.repository.utl.pt:10400.5/22740