Mobile Capital, Domestic Institutions, and Electorally Induced Monetary and Fiscal Policy

  • The literature on global integration and national policy autonomy often ignores a central result from open economy macroeconomics: Capital mobility constrains monetary policy when the exchange rate is fixed and fiscal policy when the exchange rate is flexible. Similarly, examinations of the electoral determinants of monetary and fiscal policy typically ignore international pressures altogether. We develop a formal model to analyze the interaction between fiscal and monetary policymakers under various exchange rate regimes and the degrees of central bank independence. We test the model using data from OECD countries. We find evidence that preelectoral monetary expansions occur only when the exchange rate is flexible and central bank independence is low; preelectoral fiscal expansions occur when the exchange rate is fixed. We then explore the implications of our model for arguments that emphasize the partisan sources of macroeconomic policy and for the conduct of fiscal policy after economic and monetary union in Europe.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Mark HallerbergORCiD, William Roberts Clark
Parent Title (English):American Political Science Review
ISSN:1537-5943
Publication year:2000
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
First Page:323
Last Page:346
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2307/2586015
Release Date:2018/10/01
Volume:94
Issue:2
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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