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This article provides an overview of economic thinking about monetary and fiscal policy. I discuss the methodology of answering policy questions in macroeconomics. I then explain what is known from using this methodology for positive and normative analyses of monetary and fiscal policy. Finally, I describe the challenges associated with endogenizing monetary and fiscal policy.
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I thank Barbara McCutcheon for her comments. The opinions expressed herein are mine and not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis or the Federal Reserve System.
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Kocherlakota, N.R. (2018). Monetary and Fiscal Policy Overview. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2451
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