Authors:

  • Gita Gopinath

Excerpt

Coordination and Crisis in Monetary Unions. Gita Gopinath, September 8, 2013, Paper. "We characterize fiscal and monetary policy in a monetary union with the potential for rollover crises in sovereign debt markets. Member-country fiscal authorities lack commitment to repay their debt and choose fiscal policy independently. A common monetary authority chooses inflation for the union, also without commitment. We first describe the existence of a fiscal externality that arises in the presence of limited commitment and leads countries to over borrow; this externality rationalizes..." Link verified March 28, 2014