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analysis of inflation, external debt and financial sector reform in Turkey … macroeconomic targets, such as output growth and the rate of inflation. The model centers around the government budget constraint … and can be used to either derive the financeable deficit given inflation targets, or to derive an equilibrium inflation …
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Optimal tax theory has shown that, under weak assumptions, indirect taxation such as production subsidies, tariffs, or …. However, these important results of optimal tax theory, namely production efficiency and uniform commodity taxation under non …
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This paper discusses the implications of rents and regulations which support them for the design of indirect taxes such as VATS. Intuition suggests high tax rates on industries or products with rents; but we argue that whether rents are natural (due to fixed factors) or market structure related...
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While it is usually argued that direct and indirect taxes should be added for meaningful international comparisons of country competitiveness, this paper argues that the opposite may be true. It is possible that a country with a high value-added tax needs a high capital income tax to maintain...
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This paper studies the implications of the circulation of interest bearing regional debt in a monetary union. Does the circulation of this debt have the same monetary implications as the printing of money by a central government? Or are the obligations of this debt simply backed by future...
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An asset-pricing perspective on inflation reveals that it depends on current and expected monetary and fiscal policies … rates of return of these assets, and determine the price level and the inflation rate. The paper considers a tax reduction … cut can imply very different outcomes for inflation …
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common monetary authority chooses inflation for the union, also without commitment. We first describe the existence of a … wisdom that all countries should prefer a union with low-debt members, as such a union can credibly deliver low inflation …
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appointment of Volcker marked a change in the conduct of monetary policy, but inflation dropped only when fiscal policy … accommodated this change two years later. In fact, a disinflationary attempt of the monetary authority leads to more inflation if … been confident about the switch, the Great Inflation would not have occurred and debt would have been higher. This is …
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current and future inflation innovations to revalue government debt, reducing reliance on distorting taxes; (2) the role of … inflation in optimal fiscal financing increases with the average maturity of government debt; (3) as average maturity rises, it … is optimal to tradeoff inflation for output stabilization; (4) inflation is relatively more important as a fiscal shock …
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. Inflation may be positive throughout, so the absence of deflation is not evidence against a liquidity trap. Output, on the other …
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