Elena Seghezza

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lndipendenza delle banche centrali e coordinamento tra politica monetaria e politica fiscale digital

by Giovanni Battista Pittaluga, Elena Seghezza

Year: 2004

In a mode1 à la Rogoff, with independent fiscal (AF) and monetary (AM) authority, the Nash equilibrium is characterized by an infiation rate and by a fiscal surplus lower than the ones desired by the two authorities. In the contract of performance approach, the coordination problem between monetary and fiscal policy is solved bringing back the AM preferences to those of the AF. In this way, monetary policy is not safeguarded by politica1 pressures. If one accepts the political business cycle approach, the relations between AF and AM are brought back to a multi-period context, rather than a one period context as in Rogoff and in the contract of performance approach. In this perspective, AM and AF, although both independent, can give rise to repeated games and to forms of coordination, spontaneous or «forced». The latter can be realized in institutional moments of negotiation between AM and AF or in normative constraints to the behaviour of AM and AF.

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Trade Liberalization, Investment and Growth digital

by Elena Seghezza

Year: 2003

This paper presents five theoretical openness and growth links that can account for trade-induced investment-led growth. The links are all demonstrated with a neoclassical growth model developed in the context of trade models that allow for imperfect competition and scale economies. This sort of old-growth theory in a new-trade model has not been thoroughly explored in the literature since the profession skipped from old-growth-old-trade models straight to new-growth-new-trade models. Nonetheless, such models are necessary to explain several key aspects of the econometric evidence on trade and growth. For example, cross-country data suggests that openness influences growth only via its effect on investment, and suggests that openness promotes investment in all countries whatever the capital-intensive of their exports (contrary to predictions of the old-growth-old-trade models).

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