The results allow calculating the level of country risk premium that is
associated to a neutral policy stance, i.e., a threshold level at which policy is neither counter- nor procyclical. Above (below) the threshold value of
country risk premium, monetary or fiscal policies turn procyclical (countercyclical).
The threshold level is obtained simply by dividing the output
gap coefficient by the negative of the interaction term coefficient, a result of
setting the partial derivative of the policy rule to the output gap to zero. In
the case of monetary policy equation (1), the country risk threshold spread
p* is the following:12