Reviving the Salter-Swan Small Open Economy Model

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé, Martín Uribe

Chapter in NBER book NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2020 (2021), Linda Tesar, editor
Conference held June 18-19, 2020
Published in May 2021 by Elsevier, Journal of International Economics, volume 130, May 2021
in NBER Book Series NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics

This paper provides microfoundations to the Salter-Swan policy framework, a graphical apparatus designed to ascertain the exchange-rate and fiscal stance of a policymaker with internal and external economic targets. The environment is an infinite-horizon small open economy producing tradable and nontradable goods that takes world prices and world interest rates as given and is populated by optimizing households and firms. The economy is subject to terms of trade, interest rate, and discount factor shocks. The internal target of the government is the unemployment rate and the external target is the current account. Downward nominal wage rigidity and financial frictions serve as the rationale for meaningful policy intervention.

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Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1016/j.jinteco.2021.103441