Optimal Commodity Price Stabilization over the Business Cycle

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
154
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
E42, F41
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

This paper develops a model to study the design, characterization and dynamic implications of stabilization policies in a dynamic general equilibrium model of the business cycle for an economy tainted by the Dutch disease. The model incorporates a stabili