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Because there is no perfect gauge of inflation, the macroeconomic enterprise of indexing inflation ultimately dissolves … significance of methodological choices made in the course of indexing inflation. It will focus on two different indexes of … inflation in the United States: the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the implicit price deflator of the gross domestic product …
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inflation, as the Monetarists have assumed. And he contends that inflation is in any case not the overwhelming satanic force …
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marginal cost of taxation thus making inflation more attractive from the public finance point of view. An important … empirical evidence. We provide further empirical evidence in support of this view, according to which controlling for inflation …
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This paper investigates the relationship between fiscal performance in 28 sub-Saharan African countries over the 1980-91 period with movements in the exchange rates, the terms of trade, and other macroeconomic aggregates. It finds that the tax base in most of these countries is heavily dependent...
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This paper is structured as follows : First, we outline the problem of fiscal policy and growth in Cote d'Ivoire. Second, we describe the critical economic and fiscal sequence of events in the country from 1970 to 1989. This lets us build up a comprehensive model that allows a discussion of the...
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policy to U.S. inflation over the December 2019-June 2022 period. Model calibrations show that aggregate demand shocks … explain roughly two-thirds of total model-based inflation, and that the fiscal stimulus contributed half or more of the total …
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This paper analyses the distributional impact of high consumer inflation in the euro area and government measures to … quantify the distributional impact of inflation, income support measures and measures aimed at containing prices. The analysis … confirms that purchasing power and welfare were more severely affected by the 2022 inflation surge in lower-income households …
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Modern monetary theory (MMT) has grown in popularity in recent years. Several central bankers have made passing comments about it. However, the publication of two papers by Drumetz/Pfister of the Banque de France in 2021 represents the first attempt at a more systematic assessment of MMT by two...
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This paper investigates the interplay between discretionary fiscal policy and inflation in the euro area, emphasizing … on inflation is non-linear, with debt levels significantly affecting the inflationary outcome of fiscal measures. High … debt levels tend to amplify the inflation response to fiscal expansions, a finding that holds under multiple analytical …
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The paper analyses the reasons for Japan's persistently low inflation since the bursting of the Japanese bubble economy … (low inflation conundrum). It is shown that Japan experienced a structural break from a high-growth period with relatively … high inflation to a low-growth period with exceptionally low inflation since the early 1990s. We show based on a stylized …
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