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dc.titleMonetary Policy under Fiscal Risk
dc.contributor.authorVillamizar-Villegas, Mauricio
dc.contributor.authorValencia, Oscar
dc.contributor.authorPrado Garcia, Andres Felipe
dc.contributor.authorAya, Nicolás
dc.contributor.orgunitCountry Department Central America, Haiti, Mexico, Panama and the Dominican Republic
dc.date.available2026-11-11T12:11:00
dc.date.issue2026-11-11T00:11:00
dc.description.abstractFiscal stance and sovereign credibility shape monetary policy transmission even outside fiscal dominance. Using a panel of advanced and emerging economies since the mid-1990s, we show that sovereign-risk regimes differ less by headline debt than by borrowing costs, debt composition, and interest burdens. Elevated sovereign risk weakens the transmission of monetary policy, foreign-exchange intervention, macroprudential tools, and capital- flow measures to prices, exchange rates, and output. A small open-economy model with a fiscal block can rationalize these patterns. Emerging markets operate under tighter fiscal constraints, rely more on multi-instrument configurations, and face a narrower stabilization frontier, including cases in which conventional tightening loses its disinflationary effect.
dc.format.extent42
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0014598
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Monetary-Policy-under-Fiscal-Risk.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectFiscal Policy
dc.subjectSovereign Guaranteed Credit Risk
dc.subjectSovereign Default
dc.subjectPublic Debt
dc.subjectGross Domestic Product
dc.subjectEconomy
dc.subjectCredit
dc.subjectTraditional Economy
dc.subject.jelcodeE52 - Monetary Policy
dc.subject.jelcodeE62 - Fiscal Policy
dc.subject.jelcodeF31 - Foreign Exchange
dc.subject.jelcodeF34 - International Lending and Debt Problems
dc.subject.keywordsMonetary policy transmission;sovereign risk;Fiscal space;Foreing-exchange intervention;Macroprudential
dc.typeWorking Papers
idb.identifier.pubnumberIDB-WP-01911
idb.operationRG-T4529
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