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The paper considers the case for an internationally coordinated further fiscal stimulus during the second half of 2009. Although this makes some of the analysis period-specific, most of the issues and principles considered are timeless. For a fiscal stimulus to be both effective there must be...
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users in domestic currency, inflation, and the like. Under such circumstances, some countries decide to give up their …
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1999 has targets for inflation and for the primary surplus. The main finding is that a fiscal regime characterized by a …
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tax and transfer systems. With constant primary deficits, there exist two steady-states, and the price level and inflation … in the long-run real interest rate, leading to higher inflation for any given monetary policy. Our work highlights the … role of household heterogeneity and market incompleteness in determining inflation …
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We provide an introduction to optimal fiscal and monetary policy using the primal approach to optimal taxation. We use this approach to address how fiscal and monetary policy should be set over the long run and over the business cycle. We find four substantive lessons for policymaking: Capital...
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conduct of monetary policy. Specifically, the nominal interest rate and the inflation rate cannot be below their seigniorage … Pareto inferior side of the seigniorage Laffer curve, with an unnecessarily high inflation rate and nominal interest rate … inflation rates implied by a decline in the stock of government debt outstanding. Unless the economy is on the Pareto inferior …
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I study the effects of long-run inflation and income taxation in an economy where households face uninsurable …
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The fiscal theory says that the price level is determined by the ratio of nominal debt to the present value of real … primary surpluses. I analyze long-term debt and optimal policy in the fiscal theory. I find that the maturity structure of the … debt matters. For example, it determines whether news of future deficits implies current inflation or future inflation …
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This study revisits and tests empirically the Portfolio Theory of Inflation (PTI), which analyzes how the effectiveness … (Bossone, The portfolio theory of inflation and policy (in)effectiveness, 2019). The PTI shows that when an economy is heavily … and policies aimed to stimulate output growth dissipate into domestic currency depreciation and higher inflation, with …
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long run. In particular, we show that if monetary policy reacts aggressively to inflation, this supports a steady state … where inflation is close to the central bank's target. However, the same aggressive policy simultaneously favours the … inflation are lower and monetary policy is constrained by the effective lower bound. We discuss how fiscal policy can be used to …
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