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Several recent studies imply that the response of national saving to fiscal policy is non-monotonic. In this paper, we use two data sets to search for the circumstances in which such non-monotonic responses arise: one refers to a sample of OECD countries, as in previous studies, and one to a...
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This paper considers optimal stabilization policy and nominal income targets for an open economy where the authorities are concerned both with unemployment and monetary instability. To fully achieve these two objectives the authorities must use both monetary and "supply-side" fiscal policy. It...
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interest rates, either direct or through the output gap and inflation while, in general, the effects of monetary policy on …
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In this paper I examine issues of optimal stabilization in two types of world economy, a competitive one where all countries are small, and one where there is a Stackelberg leader. The focus is on the 1985 target zones proposal of Williamson, according to which there should be a periodic fixing...
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In this Paper we carry over a static version of a New Keynesian Macromodel a la Clarida Gali Gertler (1999) to a monetary union. We will show in particular that a harmonious functioning of a monetary union critically depends on the correlation of shocks that hit the currency area. Additionally a...
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, control of inflation and control over the growth of national wealth, and a third outcome of importance, a high level of …). The assignment problem considers whether fiscal policy should be used to control inflation, leaving monetary policy to …
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be held constant in the face of a domestic inflation. In this circumstance, import duties and export subsidies would have … in line with domestic inflation. Unless such a passive policy is accompanied by the elimination of trade barriers …
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reduce the budget deficit and lower the underlying rate of inflation. The paper develops an input-output model to investigate …
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and three-digit inflation. A decade later, Turkey has a comfortable balance-of-payments situation, and holds considerable …, despite some initial success in the early 1980s, inflation remains high and the public sector budget is out of control … 1980s cushioned the fiscal squeeze, and allowed a relatively painless reduction in inflation alongside a process ofexport …
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A single variable describes, day-by-day, what investors think about the state of Brazil's economy: the Brazilian component of the Emerging Market Bond Index, the Embi spread. This spread is the difference between the yield on a dollar-denominated bond issued by the Brazilian government and a...
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