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implemented to contain that crisis: protracted fiscal austerity. I describe the causes of the recent crisis in Ireland, and look …This paper describes the causes and consequences of Ireland's economic crisis in the context of the policy solution … at the logic of austerity with a simple model. I compare the current crisis to the crisis of the 1980's, when fiscal …
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implemented to contain that crisis: protracted fiscal austerity. I describe the causes of the recent crisis in Ireland, and look …This paper describes the causes and consequences of Ireland's economic crisis in the context of the policy solution … at the logic of austerity with a simple model. I compare the current crisis to the crisis of the 1980s, when fiscal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120429
Sixteen countries across the world ¡ª including the United States and many European nations ¡ª have fallen into economic crises since the late 1990s. In <em>The Limits of Fiscal, Monetary, and Trade Policies: International Comparisons and Solutions</em>, Jonathan E Leightner convincingly argues that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011010979
Eric Tymoigne and Randall Wray's (T&W, 2013) defense of MMT leaves the MMT emperor even more naked than before (excuse the Yogi Berra-ism). The criticism of MMT is not that it has produced nothing new. The criticism is that MMT is a mix of old and new, the old is correct and well understood,...
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In recent years, the US public debt has grown rapidly, with last fiscal year's deficit reaching nearly $1.3 trillion. Meanwhile, many of the euro nations with large amounts of public debt have come close to bankruptcy and loss of capital market access. The same may soon be true of many US states...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135135
In recent years, the US public debt has grown rapidly, with last fiscal year's deficit reaching nearly $1.3 trillion. Meanwhile, many of the euro nations with large amounts of public debt have come close to bankruptcy and loss of capital market access. The same may soon be true of many US states...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008759450
This paper analyzes empirically the impact of fiscal policy on the price level for Germany and Spain. We investigate, whether the fiscal theory of the price level (FTPL) is able to deliver a reasonable explanation for the different evolutions of the price levels in these two countries during...
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Does market incompleteness radically transform the properties of monetary economies? Using an analytically tractable heterogeneous agent New Keynesian (HANK) model, we show that whether incomplete markets resolve "policy paradoxes" in the representative agent New Keynesian model (RANK) depends...
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This paper utilizes an open-economy New Keynesian overlapping generations model, the Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal Model (GIMF), to assess the macroeconomic effects of external shocks and the impact of various monetary and fiscal policy responses. The simulations assess the effect of...
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In this paper, sound public finances under the euro means sustainability in the long term instead of short- and medium-term fiscal discipline. The challenges to sustainability are identified for the four largest euro area member states, and several policy options for sustainability are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238506