Fiscal and Monetary Nexus in Emerging Market Economies: How Does Debt Matter?

By Garima Vasishtha, Taimur Baig, Manmohan S. Kumar, Edda Zoli

August 1, 2006

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Garima Vasishtha, Taimur Baig, Manmohan S. Kumar, and Edda Zoli. Fiscal and Monetary Nexus in Emerging Market Economies: How Does Debt Matter?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2006) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

This paper examines two main aspects of the interaction between fiscal and monetary policy in emerging market economies. First, it explores the interest rate-inflation relationship in economies with different levels of external and domestic public debt using panel- and crosssection data. The results show that interest rate-inflation elasticity weakens with debt/GDP and external debt/GDP. Second, it utilizes high-frequency data from Brazil, Turkey, and Poland to examine how market-determined variables react to economic news. The results suggest that when vulnerabilities are high, budget news has the most significant impact on country spreads and interest rates, and the impact of monetary policy is weakened.

Subject: Exchange rates, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, Long term interest rates, Public debt

Keywords: Government, Monetary policy, Price level, WP

Publication Details

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43
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Working Paper No. 2006/184
Stock No:

WPIEA2006184
ISBN:

9781451864441
ISSN:

1018-5941

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