The Effects of Monetary and Fiscal Policy on Aggregate Demand in a Small Open Economy : An Application of the Structural Error Correction Model

This paper empirically analyzes the short-run effects of monetary and fiscal policy on aggregate demand, using the two-step structural error correction method. This method has an advantage over the standard reduced-form error correction method in providing a meaningful interpretation for impulse responses. The results are in sharp contrast to those of the traditional Mundell-Fleming and Dornbusch models: after the monetary (fiscal) policy is relaxed, the home currency depreciates (appreciates) for a substantial period of time, and the aggregate demand first expands (contracts) then gradually returns toward its original path.
Publication date: October 2000
ISBN: 9781451858044
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Economics- Macroeconomics , Economics- Macroeconomics , Monetary and fiscal policy , structural error correction models , equation , aggregate demand , equations , cointegration

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