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, control of inflation and control over the growth of national wealth, and a third outcome of importance, a high level of …). The assignment problem considers whether fiscal policy should be used to control inflation, leaving monetary policy to …
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for a sticky price environments, as it allows to understand stable-inflation boom-bust cycles. The source of the explicit …
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. Quantitative goals take three forms: exchange rates, money growth rates, and inflation targets. We analyse the effects on inflation … determinants of inflation (such as fiscal policy, the business cycle, and openness to international trade), and the endogeneity of … systematically and robustly associated with lower inflation. The exact form of the monetary target matters somewhat, but is less …
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The U.S recession of 2007 to 2009 is unique in the post-World-War-II experience by the broad company it kept. Activity contracted around the world, with the advanced countries of the North experiencing declines in spending normally the purview of the developing economies of the South. The last...
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new conventional wisdom concerning the fiscal roots of inflation and the budgetary prerequisites for generating and … yields ambiguous predictions concerning the response of inflation to an increase in the fundamental deficit. In addition the …
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natural rate of unemployment. In addition, because of differential inflation across countries, real exchange rates become …
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Cross-country evidence on inflation and inequality suggests that they are positively correlated. I explore the …
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In this paper, we study the co-movement of the government budget balance and the trade balance at business cycle frequencies. In a sample of 10 OECD countries we find that the correlation of the two time series is negative, but less so in more open economies. Moreover, for the US the...
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inflation and the difficulties of East European central banks in pursuing non-inflationary policies. The main obstacles are the …
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situation poses to price stability. We propose to regard the central banker as a risk manager who aims to contain inflation …
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