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Chapter 4
— Nobel Prize–winning
International Business economist Franco
: Challenges in aModigliani
Changing World
The role of government in the
economy
• Fiscal policy – government’s budgetary policies for
balancing spending with taxation . Key benchmark
government debt –to-GDP ratio
• Monetary policy – policies for determining the amount
of money in supply, rates of interest and exchange
rates ( see also Lecture 10)
• Central banks play key role in monetary policy, but in
eurozone states, the European Central Bank controls
monetary policy