The credibility criterion commonly used in the strategic
macroeconomic policy literature, subgame perfection or its variants,
ignores a critical problem concerning intertemporal consistency of
policy announcements. To capture this additional credibility
constraint, this note applies two distinct notions of
Renegotiation-Proof, originally proposed in the context of two-person
repeated games. Macroeconomic policy games, where the benevolent
government interacts with atomistic private agents, offers a new
testing ground for these criteria to be evaluated. This note
discusses the relative strengths and weaknesses of these
criteria.