It's a major departure from what has long been considered best practice for economic policy.Why it matters: The president's ...

The Federal Reserve is maintaining its current policy stance in order to assess the impact of President Trump’s protectionist ...

Ghana exemplifies this policy dysfunction, where even aggressive monetary tightening is rendered ineffective due to persistent budget deficits, quasi-fiscal liabilities, and institutional ...

This paper studies the interactions of fiscal policy and monetary policy when they stabilize a single economy against shocks in a dynamic setting. If both policy-makers are benevolent, then, in our ...

Both economic theories are used by lawmakers to create fiscal and monetary policies. Keynesian Economics Keynesian economics is synonymous with the terminology of demand-side economics.

The global heads of fiscal and monetary policy are meeting for a third and final time in the country ahead of the leaders’ ...

It’s not easy to conduct monetary policy when fiscal policy is perpetually reckless. The U.S. national debt is more than $30 trillion , which is about the value of all newly produced goods and ...

The “forces of heaven” might be on the ascendancy in recent times but what politics needs is more agnostics with a pragmatic ...

Often, fiscal policy is spoken of in contrast to monetary policy, which is controlled by central banks like the Bank of England. Fiscal policy, on the other hand, is generally controlled by ...

National Treasury said that finance ministers and central bank governors were on the brink of reaching consensus as fiscal ...

Chairman Paul Volcker testifies before Congress during his second confirmation hearing for the Federal Reserve. How does Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) characterize the deficit condition at the time ...

Describe the models and techniques (simulation and estimation) that policy makers use in analyzing monetary, fiscal, and structural issues. Augment or modify the model structure to address an economic ...