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arithmetic of Sargent and Wallace (1981) states that in a fiscally dominant regime tighter money now can cause higher inflation … normative content. I analyze conditions under which it is optimal in a welfare sense for the central bank to delay inflation by … aforementioned monetarist arithmetic holds, in the sense that if the government finds it optimal to delay inflation, it does so …
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policy, and inflation control is subordinate. This article notes that the same is true of macroprudential policy, and it …
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This paper studies how financial intermediation varies across banks. Bank size is a first-order determinant of banks' capital structure in the cross-section. Largest banks have the lowest capital-to-asset ratio and the lowest ratio of Tier-1 capital against risk-weighted assets. These large...
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's (1981) unpleasant monetarist arithmetic, the closely connected fiscal theory of the price level (FTPL), and the monetarist … view of inflation. Second, we discuss how the recent inflationary episode has contributed to redistributing real resources …
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Several countries now require banks or money market funds to impose state-contingent costs on shortterm creditors to absorb financial stress. We study these requirements as part of the broader prudential toolkit in a model with five key ingredients: banks may face an aggregate stress state with...
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, effective revenue ceilings induce an increase in deficit, debt and inflation. Under many scenarios, including recurrent adverse …
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This paper studies leverage regulation and monetary policy when equity investors and/or creditors have distorted beliefs relative to a planner. We characterize how the optimal leverage regulation responds to arbitrary changes in investors' and creditors' beliefs and relate our results to...
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This paper analyzes different government debt relief programs in the European Monetary Union. I build a model and study different options ranging from debt relief to the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). The analysis reveals the following: First, patient countries repay debt, while impatient...
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This paper proposes a quantitative theory of the interaction between private and public debt in an open economy …
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sustainability. Under these circumstances, monetary policy impacts the probability of sovereign default alongside inflation dynamics …. Uribe (2006) studies the relationship between inflation and sovereign defaults with a model in which the central bank … controls a risky interest rate. He concludes that low inflation can only be maintained if the government sometimes defaults …
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