Financial Integration and Fiscal Policy in Interdependent Two-Sector Economieswith Real and Nominal Wage Rigidity

摘要

A two-country-two-sector model with a portfolio choice between money andimperfectly substitutable domestic and foreign assets, floating exchange rates and perfect foresight is presented. Account is taken of capital accumulation, government debt and current account dynamics. Numerical methods, including extensive sensitivity analysis, are used to trace the consequences of financial integration for the effects and spill-over effects of fiscal policy. Another purpose is to establish the relevance of disaggregation for the outcomes of fiscal policy.