Assessing Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interaction in a Small Open Economy: the Case Republic of Macedonia

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 20 - Trang 89-104 - 2013
Besnik Fetai1
1Southeast European University, Tetovo, Macedonia

Tóm tắt

The aim of this paper is to analyze empirically the interaction between monetary and fiscal policy in a small open transition economies: the case the Republic of Macedonia. This paper employs SVAR methodology to examine jointly the impact monetary and fiscal policy on real GDP and prices. The result reveals that the monetary policy counteracts the effects of fiscal policy and persists until the effects of fiscal policy changes disappear. This causes a crowding out effect. In addition, the result shows that the best fiscal policy for stimulating the economy appears to be one of tax-cuts. The empirical research, in jointly analyzing fiscal and monetary policy also provides an additional, possibly interesting result. The sizes of the responses of real GDP and prices to monetary shock are not significantly reduced when fiscal shock is included into monetary SVAR.

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