Jurnal Ekonomi Pembangunan
Vol. 20 No. 2 (2022): Jurnal Ekonomi Pembangunan

The Impact of Fiscal-Monetary Policy Interaction on the Indonesian Economy

Chairani Fadhila Pravitasari (Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Jenderal Soedirman)
Insukindro Insukindro (Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Gadjah Mada)



Article Info

Publish Date
15 Jan 2023

Abstract

This study seeks to examine the interactions between fiscal and monetary policies and their impact on output and inflation in Indonesia from 2003:4 to 2018:4 using Structural Vector Autoregression (SVAR). It is important to investigate the coordination between both because overall macroeconomic policy framework requires a close coordination between monetary and financial policies. The variables utilized are government spending, debt, output gap, tax, inflation, interest rate, and exchange rate obtained from the Indonesian Ministry of Finance, the Indonesian Statistics, and Bank of Indonesia. Government spending as a proxy for fiscal policy and interest rate as a proxy for monetary policy have a strategic complement relationship, whereas tax revenue as a proxy for fiscal policy and interest rate as a proxy for monetary policy have a strategic substitutes relationship.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jep

Publisher

Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance

Description

Jurnal Ekonomi Pembangunan is a peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum for scientific works pertaining to Development Economics. Published twice in a year (June and December). This Journal has p-ISSN 1829-5843, and e-ISSN 2685-0788. This journal was first published since June 2003 by the ...