Optimal fiscal and monetary policy under sticky prices

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 198-230

  Schmitt Grohé, Stephanie ^a   Uribe, Martín ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Optimal fiscal and monetary policy; Optimal inflation volatility; Sticky prices; Tax smoothing

Indexed keywords

EID: 1342327674     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0531(03)00111-X     Document Type: Article

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