Сoordination of fiscal and monetary policy in Ukraine

Abstract

In the conditions of uncertainty and economic instability, the issue of researching approaches to strengthening the coordination of fiscal and monetary policy is becoming relevant. The aim of the research is to justify directions for strengthening the coordination of fiscal and monetary policy of Ukraine. It is hypothesized that the level of fiscal and monetary policy coordination determines the country’s ability to ensure macroeconomic stability. Special and general scientific methods were used: system approach, theoretical generalization, induction and deduction, statistical, scientific abstraction. Strengthening the coordination of fiscal and monetary policy is an important stabilization tool for ensuring the adaptation of the economy to social and economic conditions, curbing inflation in order to maintain exchange rate stability, reducing fundamental price pressure and directly overcoming inflationary processes. The toolkit of fiscal and monetary policy must be considered in an inseparable unity, taking into account the synergistic effect of ensuring macro­economic stability, which cannot be achieved exclusively by the tools of only one of the policies. The main directions of strengthening the coordination of the fiscal and monetary policy of Ukraine at this stage include: combining the tools inherent in both directions of policies, strengthening its flexibility and adaptability to socio-economic processes; sy­ner­gy of policy instruments in the context of ensuring debt sustainability and reducing fiscal risks; substantiation of the common strategic goals of policies, which will contribute to strengthening their coordination, in particular by developing an appropriate strategy; the development of a financial toolkit for prevention and response, within the framework of which policy instruments are used together, in particular by improving the traditional practice of applying macroprudential measures; streng­thening the independence of state institutions that ensure the formation and implementation of fiscal and monetary policy by continuing institutional and legislative reforms in the relevant areas.