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This paper investigates the impact of fiscal shocks on inflation, using a large panel of 139 countries over the period … 1970-2021. First, both headline and core measures of inflation increase in response to expansionary shifts in the fiscal … economic conditions, as well as monetary policy type, exchange rate regimes and fiscal rules, at the time of the shock. We …
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to assess the potential impact of different combinations of monetary and fiscal policies on output, inflation, and the …
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Central banks in major industrialized economies were slow to react to the surge in inflation that began in early 2021 … war in Ukraine. We investigate the consequences of policy delay in responding to inflation shocks. First, using a simple … three-period model, we show how policy delay worsens inflation outcomes, but can mitigate or even reverse the output decline …
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sub-Saharan African countries on the relative importance of fiscal and monetary determinants of inflation. Based on the … dynamic response of inflation to different shocks, including nominal public debt, results show that a number of SSA countries …
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In this paper, we consider the design of the surveillance, and, in particular, the fiscal criteria in the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) with the view to ensuring they are consistent with internal and external sustainability. This consistency is important within a...
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results suggest that under Colombia's inflation targeting regime, which incorporates exchange rate flexibility and a highly …
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skewed distribution of outcomes. This creates a significant trade-off for central banks, balancing increased inflation risks … against reduced output. Our results suggest modifying the Taylor rule to give equal weight to responses to both inflation and …
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a very low coefficient on inflation, which minimizes real wage volatility. The welfare gains of optimizing the fiscal …
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a freely floating exchange rate, an explicit target for inflation, and a mechanism than ensures a stable government debt …
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This paper characterises the jointly optimal monetary and fiscal stabilisation policy in a new Keynesian model that allows for consumers who lacking access to asset markets consume their disposable income each period. With full asset market participation, the optimal policy relies entirely on...
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