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.0% of GDP. The maximal amount of seigniorage revenue that can be extracted at a constant rate of inflation is not far from …
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This paper focuses on the obvious: Pareto-improving programmes may fail to improve everyone's lot. Politically, it has often been interpreted as a requirement that a majority should benefit from the change. Events in Central and Eastern Europe suggest otherwise and cast doubt on the relevance of...
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In earlier work we documented two episodes in which a sharp fiscal consolidation was associated with a surprisingly large expansion in private domestic demand. In this paper we draw on further evidence to investigate if and when fiscal policy changes can have such non-Keynesian effects. In the...
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In the aftermath of World War II, Italy and France experienced high inflation. The two countries enacted remarkably … of its decline. We conclude that inflation was symptomatic of an unresolved distributional conflict, and came to an end …
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countries with low inflation, the raw relationship between average inflation and the growth rate of money is tenuous at best … elasticities implied by theories of Baumol-Tobin and Miller-Orr. Finally, the sample after 1990 shows considerably less inflation … variability, worsening the fit of a one-for-one relationship between money growth and inflation, and generates a fairly low …
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the Great Inflation and the Great Moderation. …
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We investigate whether the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level (FTPL) can explain UK inflation in the 1970s. We confront …
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We investigate whether the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level (FTPL) can explain UK inflation in the 1970s. We confront …
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We investigate whether the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level can deliver a reasonable explanation for UK inflation in … was accommodative. The model is tested for its implied cointegration between inflation and government spending and for its … dynamics by using the method of indirect inference, under which the model’s simulated behaviour is compared with the inflation …
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How should monetary and fiscal policy react to adverse financial shocks? If monetary policy is constrained by the zero lower bound on the nominal interest rate, subsidising the interest rate on loans is the optimal policy. The subsidies can mimic movements in the interest rate and can therefore...
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