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  "title": "Achieving a Soft Landing: The Role of Fiscal Policy",
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  "summary": "This paper utilizes an open-economy New Keynesian overlapping generations model to assess the extent to which fiscal policy, along side an inflation-forecast-based monetary policy, could enhance macroeconomic stability in Colombia.",
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      "content": "- Paper utilizes an open-economy New Keynesian overlapping generations model to assess the extent to which fiscal policy, alongside an inflation-forecast-based monetary policy, could enhance macroeconomic stability in Colombia.\n- Model simulations indicate that:\n  - A stronger response of the fiscal balance to excess tax revenue would reduce the burden on the central bank of adjusting interest rates.\n  - Such a fiscal response would lessen the associated degree of exchange rate volatility.\n  - It would contribute to a more stable external current account balance.\n  - Fiscal policy can stabilize output and inflation in addition to the monetary policy framework."
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      "heading": "Model, scope, and methodology",
      "content": "- Model type: open-economy New Keynesian overlapping generations model.\n- Monetary policy framework considered: inflation-forecast-based monetary policy.\n- Analysis assesses sensitivity of fiscal policy effectiveness to:\n  - The type of shock.\n  - The response of monetary policy.\n  - The length of fiscal policy implementation lags."
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      "content": "- Strengthen fiscal balance responses to excess tax revenue to:\n  - Reduce central bank interest-rate adjustment needs.\n  - Lower exchange rate volatility.\n  - Stabilize the external current account.\n- Consider interactions between fiscal and monetary policy when designing stabilization strategies.\n- Account for implementation lags when evaluating potential stabilizing benefits of fiscal policy."
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      "content": "- Success of fiscal policy in enhancing macroeconomic stability depends on:\n  - Type of shock affecting the economy.\n  - How monetary policy responds to shocks (inflation-forecast-based rule considered).\n  - Length of fiscal policy implementation lags.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- wp0869\n  - wp0869 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - wp0869 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2016/12/31/achieving-a-soft-landing-the-role-of-fiscal-policy-21809"
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    "Authors: Daniel Leigh",
    "Published: March 1, 2008",
    "Series: IMF Working Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451869316.001",
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