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authority of Japan because it has accumulated the debt outstanding much more than other countries …The purpose of this paper is to analyze sustainability issues of Japan's fiscal policy and then to discuss the debt …
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During the last two decades, many Latin American countries engaged in disinflation programs based on both exchange rate management and fiscal reforms. However, in most instances, part of the fiscal reform was delayed or not implemented completely, so the fiscal deficit increased and the program...
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We lay out a tractable model for fiscal and monetary policy analysis in a currency union, and analyze its implications for the optimal design of such policies. Monetary policy is conducted by a common central bank, which sets the interest rate for the union as a whole. Fiscal policy is...
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We study the effects of monetary and fiscal policies when both money and government bonds provide liquidity services … the supply of bonds. Those movements in government bond prices affect available liquidity, and therefore aggregate demand … interest rate on money. We conclude that in a liquidity-dependent world, fiscal and monetary policies are joined at the hip …
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Intervention operations are used by governments to manage their exchange rates but officials rarely confirm their presence in the market, leading inevitably to erroneous reports in the financial press. There are also reports of what we term, unrequited interventions, interventions that the...
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-2004. First, we find that the Bank of Japan's policy commitment to continuing monetary easing until some prespecified conditions … sloping, indicating that the Bank of Japan's commitment failed to have su.cient influence on the market's expectations about … escape from the liquidity trap …
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Japan's low-rate policies on its government and households. Because of the duration mismatch on the government balance sheet …
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