In the Mundell-Fleming model of a small open economy with flexible exchange rates and perfect capital mobility, starting from equilibrium, if lump-sum taxes are increased, what happens to the equilibrium levels of the country's (i) GDP, (ii) interest rate and (iii) exchange rate?
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This question is on Policy under floating exchange rates, part of Open-economy macroeconomics in International Economics.
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